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You may be a PhD and have excellent comprehension for all I know. However,judging from your comments,you seem to be unaware that the topic of this thread concerns what the Pope said about morals in his soon to be published book. Stay on topic or be prepared to be viewed as a person who doesn't comprehend what he is reading or doesn't understand how to respond.

If you teach,spent a semester on World War II and developed your final to gage what your students had learned,would you give high marks to the student who turned in his test with a very comprehensive description of the French Revolution?

"Stay on topic or be prepared to be viewed as a person who doesn't comprehend what he is reading or doesn't understand how to respond."

It's not viewed that way on this end; not at all.

Since when are we taking exams around here?If you'll look at my first post--it was on topic. I made the distinction between the Pope's conservatism in matters of morality and his liberalism in matters of faith. I was pounced on and had to fight off the pack for daring to call the Pope liberal.

You may be a PhD and have excellent comprehension for all I know. However,judging from your comments,you seem to be unaware that the topic of this thread concerns what the Pope said about morals in his soon to be published book.

Certain people here really don't care what the Pope say, nor what the Church teaches. When they left Catholicism for other churches, they had the dogma that no matter what, the Church was in apostasy.

Stay on topic or be prepared to be viewed as a person who doesn't comprehend what he is reading or doesn't understand how to respond.

The Catholic Church is a universal Church to bring Christ to everyone, the Popes statement is amazing in its frankness given the European experience, and considering that his remarks are on the verge of criminal slander now. We know this is what the Church taught, and we did not need it pointed out 5 years ago. The concept of gay unions was never an issue for the Church. We understood the doctrine, but in light of the worldwide assault on heterosexuality, it was needed.

America has it easy in many regards, due to the guarantees of freedom. We also have much less government than the Euros, and some of the most intrusive tax schemes, like radio receiver licensing, don't exist here. In the US we color our opinions forgetting there is a whole world out there who have it a lot worse, suffering under crushing taxes, socialist oppression, and government intrusion.

Many people here consider the Church a confederation of liars, who have nothing but the ruin of souls in mind, will make those assumptions through the lens of our American experience. Nothing the Church does is effective, or was too late to make a difference.

If you teach,spent a semester on World War II and developed your final to gage what your students had learned,would you give high marks to the student who turned in his test with a very comprehensive description of the French Revolution?

It is a matter of agenda. They can talk about nothing else, except the agenda they have which is to tear down a Universal Church, and replace it with one that only caters to a few elect. It is Jasenism at it's worst, and was one of the Heresies that Pope Pius X fought against during his pontificate.

Many of them are one trick ponies, who can only talk about the "evils" perpetrated by Rome. No matter the education, if a person has an ax to grind, they will never say anything useful on any other topic. I hold out Ward Churchill as a fine example of a PhD who can't think about anything but his little ax, or tomahawk. I know, you can trust me, besides engineering degrees, I have an Associates Degree in Anthropology...