[ApplegateRanch]

Parishioner Larry Pavlicek was not sympathetic. As a divorced man, he said he has to live with the church's teaching that he cannot remarry and cannot have sex outside of marriage.

"If you're going to be a Catholic, either live with it or call yourself something different," he said. "They're trying to change something that has been taught by the church for 2,000 years."

I'm not a Catholic, but I applaud this man. He understands that it is about the Church's teaching, not about him.

[Mr. Thorne]

I am, and I applaud him, too.