[metmom]

Actually, those *activists* have been in control of the Vatican for FAR longer than 50 years.

Like over 1,000.

They are just no longer making a secret about it.

[kearnyirish2]

50 years ago they came out to steer the Second Vatican Council; their power was visible to all at the time.

[allwrong57]

why is it the vatican, when we have protestant churches with lesbian ministers, etc? Doesn’t that seem odd to make it about the catholic church?

[Mrs. Don-o]

St. Paul wrote 14 Epistles, and in every one of them ---every one of them --- he either alludes to problems within the local churches, or charges them head-on. These were, over and over, problems with the Doctrine of the Faith, problems with Moral Law, or both.

So I agree with you, metmom, that the Catholic Church has long had a problem with "activists" and progressivists/modernists.

Not just for 1,000 years, but for 2,000 years.