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"Dublin archbishop called Catholicism a ‘harsh,’ ‘judgmental’ ‘religion of fear’ in Holy Week homilies"
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"During Holy Week and on Easter, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin blasted the Church for its 'harsh exclusion' and 'judgmental' treatment of 'gay and lesbian people' at 'various times in history, and not only in a distant past' and making people 'oppressed by guilt.'
'For many, Christianity has been experienced in precisely the opposite sense' of being 'a faith of new life and of liberation,' Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said at the Easter Vigil. 'For many, Christianity had been turned into a faith of prohibitions. Certain theologies spoke about freeing people from sin, but had developed a concept of sin and sinner which made it almost impossible for a sinner ever to feel himself or herself truly liberated. There were so many rules that many were left with a sense of scrupulosity which left them trapped and oppressed by guilt and doubts. We had created a religion of fear, so much that even when we tried to live the good life we were never left with a sensation of being free.'
In 2015, when Ireland voted to legalize same-sex 'marriage,' Martin refused to tell Catholics how to vote...
'I have ... no wish to stuff my religious views down other people’s throats,' Martin wrote in the Irish Times...
Dublin will host the 2018 World Meeting of Families, which Pope Francis will attend."
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