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SHOCKING!! I don't think I could ever come to love the Church.

I read this posting on AMERICAblog and followed the link to this article from The Advocate. The gist:

the archbishop of Quebec’s threat to Canadian lawmakers last week. Once Canada’s same-sex marriage bill becomes law, Cardinal Marc Ouellet announced, the church could refuse to baptize children of gay parents.

I was appalled. How can the Catholic Church, which should be the repository of Jesus' message of love and forgiveness for all, even think of denying some children the sacrament of baptism just because they have same-sex parents!!

It's really unconscionable to say something like that. No wonder the Catholic Church is losing ground among the faithful in the western emisphere. They are so retrograde, they still live in the Middle Ages (or at least, I'm sure they wish they still were.)

This is the most striking passage of the article:

The child of a drug addict can be baptized. The child of a murderer can be baptized. Even the illegitimate child of a fornicating priest can be baptized (and if you’ve studied Catholic history, you know many children of wayward clergy grew up to be cardinals and even popes).

All these children are considered worthy before God. The only exception Cardinal Ouellet and his church would make, based on the circumstance of their birth alone, is the child of a same-sex couple who have made a legal life commitment to one another.

This is a freaking Cardinal we're talking about, not just some crazy priest stranded in an outpost on the Canadian steppe.
And just in case that's not shocking enough, this is what's recently come to light:

During World War II, Pope Pius XII, at the behest of his representative in France, Monsignor Angelo Roncalli (who later became Pope John XXIII), reluctantly allowed the baptism of some Jewish children in France and Italy so they wouldn’t be slaughtered in extermination camps. After the war, the few parents who survived pressed to have their children returned to them.

Pius refused, saying they were better off in institutions that would help them maintain their Catholic faith. A document from 1946, recently found in the archives of a French church, outlines a cold and methodical process to prevent the reunification of the saved children with their suffering parents. The anguished accounts of these parents are heart-wrenching.

I rest my case.