If you don’t agree with Church, join another

I wish to respond to a recent article in the Irish Examiner (April 17) about ‘Catholics for Choice’. As a practicing Catholic, I accept the teachings of the Church. One does not choose what to accept and what to reject.

Contraception is banned, because sex was made by God to bring children into the world and not for self-gratification. ‘Same-sex marriage’ is acceptable as long as it is called ‘same-sex union’, as marriage means male and female.

Family planning organisations push condoms, as a safe contraception, but when the condoms fail they push abortion. They make money on abortions, even though this hurts women who have to live with their ‘choice’.

How can Catholics for Choice call themselves Catholic when they disagree so much with the Church? I have no problem with the truths of the Catholic Church. If I did, I would find another Church. Why can’t people who have a problem with the Church join another, which suits them?

Please don’t hold your breath that Pope Francis will change the truths of the Catholic Church to suit you, because he can’t. He is the Pope precisely because he preaches the truths of the Catholic Church and lives them daily.

B. Cotter

Islanduane

Mungret

Co Limerick