Sexuality row may be irresolvable, says ex-Archbishop

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_051211gays.shtml

A much-admired former Archbishop of York, whose own sexual orientation he once described as “a grey area”, has said that he cannot see any resolution to well-worn arguments within the Anglican Communion about homosexuality and women priests – certainly in his lifetime.

His own hope for the church’s future, he said, now lay in the local parish, where people were relatively unconcerned with these questions – being much more concerned with everyday issues of life and death, and questions of morality like world poverty or the war in Iraq.

OK, I am tired of the same arguments also. Reasoning may go on about a subject for a long time. In the interim, obedience is required.

Who can I thank but God himself for the Catholic Church for the only connection to Truth that does not change with every seemingly irreconcilable argument in modern society.

It may be true that at the parish level “everyday issues of life and death, and questions of morality like world poverty or the war in Iraq” are most on people’s minds. I don’t know.

For myself, I need to know that Truth is a whole. Truth, as it informs current events can not be pushed away as “irresolvable”. If Truth were really unable to resolve some of today’s problems, then I would not need it to resolve any of today’s problems, because it would be partial and useless.

Even if the reasoning goes on for time exceeding my lifetime, the thing to do for the duration is to obey.

And who to obey? My Church.

Saints were not required to be intelligent. Reasoning is not the key to heaven.

Faith is not opposed to reason, obedience is another sure path to Faith as well.

John Henry said something about our duty to reason with all the capacity at our disposal. And then to simply obey.

I would be very uncomfortable if I were an Anglican, not knowing whom to obey while enduring the reasoning process.