text: "If bishops like Paprocki were more vocal about their opposition to masturbation, in vitro fertilization or vasectomies as they are in their campaign against same-sex marriage, perhaps more Catholics would realize how urgent the need is to rethink the entirety of the church’s sexual ethics."
  
  Thank you for that, NCR, you've hit the nail on the head. Few Catholics really believe that sex is for procreation only, and in practice that philosophy is almost never heeded except by the most orthodox. Once that truth is admitted it becomes impossible to ignore the fact that a rethinking of sexual ethics is badly needed. 
  
  As for that dialogue with the LGTB Catholic community, as a gay person I would suggest that the church move fast because that door is closing fast. I'm old and set in my ways, but young gay Catholics simply stop going to church as soon as they can, so the gay audience the church might try to reach won't even be there once the church makes up its mind it wants to reach them.