And the same church that spawned the hatred of the Jews for millenia. use of this “hate lever” that gave hitler absolute power, and then we got wWII.

And after the war, the church gave a significant number of passports to nazis’ so they could escape to South America.

And they made their priests into perverts, by turning sex into some kind of frankenstein forbidden puritanic monster for their alter boys just reaching puberty. No wonder, when nature took over decades later, these people picked up where they had left off on sexual development, as virtual kids looking for kids with which to experiment.

We should pray for the good people, like my neighbor, a Good Catholic, who while he believes, says that gay people should have all the legal rights of marriage, though he admits he struggles with that particular term. And we can hope that he and millions of other Catholics will join the Episcopal Church, which is in the process of telling its bigots to go take a hike.

And to the Pope, who in his previous job is best described as head of the chuches KGB, designed to root out and prevent any moderation of their thousand year old backwardness.

And a Pope who in his youth at about age 17 said “Seig Heil, Mein Fuhrer”. Young or not, his hands are stained by association with one of history’s greatest monstrosities. I could forgive him if he was a priest. But the head of the church – no way, Jose.

And his actions show that he learned his lessons well. In his youth. It is only the victims that have changed, as it became unfashionable after the Jewish holocaust to spread hatred about Jesus own people.

Someday the history of this church will be written. It will be an abject lesson in how power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and think of how one thinking they have the power of God corrupts even more.

And we will be rid of this backwards looking institution, whose prime goal seems to be power, money, control.

The roots of all evil.

In the same way we should condemn the terrorists, yet not those who morally and financially support the terrorists? If some Catholics are opposed to official Vatican doctrine, then why not simply choose another denomination from within which to worship “God”? Why be part of an organization whose official policy is one of hatred and intolerance? Do the enablers of such doctrine bear any less guilt by association, any less blood on their hands, than the perpetrators of such a policy?

People don’t seek to become a priest to uphold a flawed ideology, but because they believe they are called by God to serve his people. I would strongly suggest that you point the finger at the Magisterium of the Church, and not the whole church in general. There are many, many, many Catholics (priests included) who don’t seek to exclude anyone, and many of them would agree with many of us who are posting here. I’m not going to give up my faith because of what some ignorant people in Rome have to say, because they have absolutely no infulence in the lives of the people in the pews. The blame/fault lies with the Magisterium, not the Church (the people of God). Don’t miss the forest for the trees…….my faith is not rooted in the ruling class of the church. And BTW, God also knows the difference.