Populism and The Church

We seem to be entering an era of populism that is leading to the reforming of many institutions. Among the institutions that are being pressured to change is the Catholic Church and the actions of Father Alberto Cutie may represent the voice of the masses who today are demanding the Catholic Church come down from its self-proclaimed sanctimonious perch and take a stance away from its outdated doctrines and pageantry.
Mr. Cutie is being what G-d intended him to be....a man. The oath of celibacy is an outdated attempt on the church's part to divide their clergymen from the populace by establishing a version of what a servant of G-d was deemed to be centuries ago. Like many of the elaborate displays of church rituals that are used to bewilder it’s followers to accept the law of G-d as dispensed by the Church.
The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church goes back centuries. While it was the Spanish who first established a European presence in the Western Hemisphere it was the religious flight of Protestants and members of other religious groups that were being persecuted by the Catholics in Europe that established themselves in the New World and eventually laid down the foundation of this great nation of ours.
While the Protestants were establishing a country that emphasized religious freedom the Spanish were intent on sacking the New World of its riches. The Spanish appeased Vatican approval and financing by supposedly making it their mission to convert the indigenous inhabitants of the New World to Catholicism. In the name of the Catholic Church and the Vatican, the Spanish enslaved and slaughtered hundreds of thousands. This is the same church that was responsible for the Spanish Inquisition and who has through the centuries developed elaborate pageantry and rituals to mask a thirst for power that for two thousand years has caused rivers of blood to flow. And we call the Taliban extremists!
Father Alberto Cutie's actions echoes the voices that wants to stop this hypocrisy and bring the Catholic out of its veil of pageantry and hypocrisy to the mainstream of a modern society.