[daniel1212]

Can it be that you really don’t understand the difference between the Catholic Church holding a doctrine and sinful men who temporarily occupy offices within the Church defying her teachings? Can it be that you really don’t understand the difference between professions and practice revealing what one really believes? RCs are big on invoking James 2, even though it indicts them.

Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works . (James 2:18)

The Fact remains that Rome has treated even notorious public proabortion, prohomosexual RCs as members in life and in death (such as Teddy K., with no manifest repentance), and in so doing it interprets canon law, and overall reveals what it really believes, with relative few dissenters.

[dsc]

“Can it be that you really don’t understand the difference between professions and practice revealing what one really believes?”

No, I understand that quite well. I understand it well enough to see that the sinful men who commit the actions we’re discussing are acting without the sanction of the Church and against her teachings.

Your refusal to admit what is before your eyes is not heroic, or even principled, but only obdurate.