[bill1952]

Exactly.

And this: Expected Vatican Ban Roils American Church")
Where exactly is that church?

Do they mean the Roman Catholic Church in America?

I'm aware of no American Catholic sect.

[siunevada]

I'm aware of no American Catholic sect.

Perhaps the AP writer is a frustrated novelist. Or perhaps it is just the writer's mind roiling right before our eyes.

[BIRDS]

Yeah, that's the point that leaped out at me, too, and about which I find peculiar, AP (the "religious writer" at that) headlining some "American Church" being "roil(ed)" by a Vatican instruction...it suggests a disconect and separation that doesn't exist.

What and who IS "roiled" is liberals who want to force ideologies and cultural issues throughout the rest of population...to overrule the Freedom of Religion based upon cultural trends and insistences.

I'm proud of the Pope for this decision, truly proud. AND I'm an American, live here, attend church here, don't consider any "American Church" other than my local Catholic parish as place of worship, among other Catholic churces I attend now and then. The writer is just trying to get an argument going, as if it's the Vatican against "America."

[A.A. Cunningham]

I'm aware of no American Catholic sect.

They're out there.

American Catholic Church

[MSSC6644]

I'm aware of no American Catholic sect

You haven't heard of Voice of the Faithful?

[BIRDS]

Well...look at the same article now, AP has reissued it with a different title:

Title now reads: "VATICAN MAY BAR BAYS FROM SEMINARIES"A

I'm thinking AP got more than a few complaints about their original flame-baiting headline.