No, I don't excuse that at all. In fact, I'm saying to you - the laity should never have gone along with that. The Church has spoken on so many things that the present institutional church has tossed aside. It can't be both. Some things cannot be changed. Those who attempt to do so are no friend of The Catholic Church. They never have been in the past when exactly these same things were done, for example in England at the time of Cranmer and Henry VIIIth. The recently deceased Michael Davies was keen to point out just these sort of comparisons.
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