Relativism

Thinking about the Catholdic Church's objections to relativism, that it is leading people away from the concept of objective truth - and specifically, the Catholic Churc's understanding of objective truth.

I believe that even if there is an "objective truth" applications may be different in different circumstances...and that it could be that what seems like "less than" may just be "outside of" the understood boundaries...

Thinking about marriage and what it means to be married, and the different aspects of it, and what aspects can and cannot apply to same sex couples. Same sex couples may not be "sexually complementary," and cannot conceive children thgouh the "unitive act," but every other teaching about marriage seems that it would apply...being a sign of love...growing together in love..having other ways to widen that circle of stablelove...supporting life in other ways...

There are already different callings that are understood within the church.  Being a priest or a religious or a married person or a single person that does not fall into any of these categories but is called to live out a Christioan life.  It is already recoginzed that there is more than one way to live authentically as "a child of God," and we are all called to discern not only our own gifts but our own path.  And even if we all have the same destination we can have differnt paths, and those differnt paths can be valid, and the differnt paths can be necessary in the tapestry of God's creation in time and space.

And we are not called to be successful, we are called to be faithful.  And a prophet is not a prohet because people believe, but because he -- or she -- speaks a truth.

It might be easier to abandon the whole framework of Catholicism, which I entrerd as a convert as an adult at the age of 24.    But I feel called to the cross of reconciling two opposing world views, because I do believe that it is through the different perspectives that we get a more full sense of the whole.