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ATHER GEOFF Posts A response to a second E-mail from someone of the religious right. It’s an interesting conversation, but I’d like to highlight his quote from retired Roman Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church.

Far too often the Catholic Church has believed that it had such a level of divine guidance that it did not need the right to be wrong. As a result, both theologically and psychologically it can be bound to decisions of the past. It can be unable to move forwards, even when clear evidence emerges that earlier decisions were conditioned by their own time and that the arguments for them are not as strong as they were once thought to be. It has not been able to face the idea that on important issues and for centuries of time it might have been wrong.