[Alex Murphy]

• 1. The Bishops have not changed Catholic doctrine regarding the moral admissibility of same-sex activity, nor will they change it, nor can they change it.
  
• 2. The issue is one of pastoral approach to people suffering from same-sex attractions.
• 3. There was no "Vatican backtracking" in the face of "conservative bishops" regarding this issue, as CNN reports. Check the Synod's working document against the official Catholic doctrine and you'll see they don't contradict each other.
• 4. I'm all for "gradualism" - the Synod's "byword" - if by it we mean to say that discipleship and growth are a process...
• 5. Righteous gradualism works.
• 6. The interim report issued by the Synod of Bishops is just that, interim and therefore, temporary, malleable, and unfinished.

Y'all need to get together and get your stories straight.

[Teófilo]

If I were in charge of communications in the Vatican, I would run things very differently. As it is, I call’em the way I see’em. :-)

~Theo

[dangus]

Why? I think the synod bringing up the issue of homosexuality is foolish because (1) they can’t really do anything that would substantively please the liberals anyway and (2) They invite the liberals to sow all kinds of confusion, so they get the worst of both worlds. But #s 1, 2, 3, and 6 are undeniable. (As for #s 4 and 5, I don’t even know what the hell gradualism means.)