​What Protestants Can Learn From Catholics

But the comment in the book that struck me most came towards the end. Fr. Fessio, a Jesuit priest, called upon the Catholic Church to hold its people accountable to its teachings and to begin to discipline those who denied them. This is perhaps the Achilles Heel of the Catholic Church: allowing its name to be used by those whose war against human nature on issues of life, sexuality, and gender is so completely at odds with Christian teaching. Certainly, the child abuse scandal has severely damaged the Church’s public witness. But so has the failure to deal with those many politicians who use the Catholic label when it suits them but never allow the Catholic Church’s clearly stated positions on such matters as abortion to interfere with their chances of elected office.