The Catholic Church is under attack “partly because of the sins of some of its leaders, but mainly because of its uncompromising teachings” on marriage, said an Australian archbishop.
“Faced with this, the church can either compromise and face irrelevance, or continue to teach Christ’s truth about marriage, life and love, and pray that the world will listen,” Archbishop Barry Hickey, retired archbishop of Perth, told pilgrims at the International Eucharistic Congress June 12.
The archbishop told a packed conference hall that “only a few years ago one could safely assume that our understanding of marriage was generally accepted,” but this is no longer the case.
“Under attack” is a rather (melo)dramatic turn of phrase. Are people really threatening the Catholic Church in Australia or simply expressing different viiewpoints?