An open letter to the Pope.

I am an Ex-catholic. Part of the reason for this is that I never had Faith. Part of the reason is that my only religious experience was animistic, not Abrahamic.

As an outsider, who's an ex insider, I have a few observations.

1) you believe in Papal infallibility both forward and backward in time. However you do not believe that psychics and fortune tellers get their gifts from God. So, if seeing the future is not in god's plan, and the Pope does not have this capacity, then decisions made by the pontiff are only infallible for the scope of his decision. Let's keep this in mind.
2) Now, the Abrahamic churches have traditionally installed church doctrine to assist in public health issues: Jewish Kosher Laws, fish on friday, etc. Currently the church faces two primary threats. First is overpopulation. In areas that are stringently Catholic, population growth is at dangerous levels. Left unchecked, it will cause global repercussions. This brings up a variety of issues.
2a) Marriage: what is it for? originally it helped insure Paternity, now, all the rhetoric says it's about family. If this is so, then why do you still allow infertile couples to get married? If your answer is adoption, then why not allow same-sex couples? if we're reading into the letter of Leviticus, why not allow lesbian couples?
2b) Contraception: why not use any? You allow medical operations. You allow pharmaceuticals. You allow for some types of birth control. Why not allow chemical or surgical birth control? If a marriage has already produced ...say... two children, or at least one, then why not allow for permanent contraceptive methods?
2c) Fornication is not forbidden in the 10 commandments. Yet your stance on Adultery has softened over the last few years. So, your resistance to fornication is nearly meaningless. This makes premarital sex so rampant that a disturbing percentage of all marriages occur within 8 months of the first child born (ahem). Despite the marriage and family link, a marriage strictly to cover over a premarital conception ALSO goes against anything that could be the point of Marriage.
3) Disease. We have a large number of diseases running rampant in the world today. When they were STDs, you had the option of sitting aloof and declaring them Gods punishment to the libidinous. However, diseases like aids, herpes, bird flu and others can be spread though strict observation of religious rites. Again, the Church allows for some medical sciences, why not endorse health education? Also, combine the lack of health education with the growing fornication rates, and you have a recipe for a global pandemic issue.

I implore you to solve any one of these issues. The simple indulgence of condoms could halt overpopulation, reduce disease transmission, and may even put a damper on fornication. (Lord knows I hate those things)