[MWS]

Many of us who cling desperately to our Catholic Church for instruction, inspiration and support prayed that a new Pope would help heal the church's serious wounds and reconnect it more surely to modern realities.

I love how he opens with this line and then lays out exactly how he doesn't accept the Church's instruction, inspiration, and support.

Personally, I hope that Pope Benedict XVI pushes liberal Catholics in the US to the point where they run off to the Episcopal Church. It is EXACTLY that for which they are looking - an organization that runs according to beliefs that tickle their modern ears, without any of this nonsense about immutable doctrinal Truths laid out by a Divine Founder.

They'd be so much happier.

[pissant]

well said

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

My sister joined the Episcopal Church when she got married. She calls it "Catholic Lite".