text: Ah, Catholic dogma. Making innocents suffer for over 2,000 years. A sterling legacy of persecution based on works of the imagination. A ban on women priests too, still, in 2017. Sigh. The spiritual consolation provided must be extraordinary if it can make kind, thinking human beings look the other way on these files. And that is what they're doing--looking the other way. Dogma that categorizes women and LGBTQ as lesser categories of human beings? If you stay in the church, you sanction its continuance (to truly terrible effect in some countries worldwide--it's official Vatican stuff, people, whatever your home opinions may be) for decades at least to come. No theological arguments and angles proffered will change that. Look to your consciences, y'all. Walk away. Now. Please. Find god elsewhere.