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To: Mrs. Don-o
based on admittedly "circumstantial" evidence which you will neither cite nor link?

So then, explain the current situation of the Catholic Church seemingly not caring about all of these goings on.

72 posted on 08/28/2008 8:23:00 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (OVERPRODUCTION......... one of the top five worries for American farmers.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
"So then, explain the current situation of the Catholic Church seemingly not caring about all of these goings on."

Please excuse me, but this sentence lacks the necessary specificity in adressing a huge subject ("all these things going on") with literally thousands of ramifications.

On just one of the problems cited:

Four years ago, 12 Catholic bishops were on record saying that pro-abort Catholic politicians were not to receive Communion in their diocese, citing Canon 915 ("those who obstinately persevere in manifest grave sin" are "not to be admitted" to Holy Communion.)

This year, Bp. Raymond Burke, who holds that NO Bishop, priest, deacon, lay Eucharistic Minister, or anybody else who distributes the Sacrament, should offer Communion to a person who "obstinately perseveres in manifest grave sin", has just been appointed to the Apostolic Signatura, the Church's equivalent of the Supreme Court.

That is not evidence of the "Catholic Church seemingly not caring." I believe Burke's a bellwether for big changes.

Similar leaves are fluttering indicating a shift in the wind. For instance, the University of San Diego denying an academic chair in Catholic Theology to pro-abort academician Rosemary Radford Ruether.

I fully empathize with your impatience, that all of this should have been done 40 years ago, dammit. But you watch. The question won't be "Why don't they do something," but "Which side are you on?"

74 posted on 08/28/2008 8:41:33 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("I have a mustard seed, and I'm not afraid to use it." ---attributed to Pope Benedict XVI)
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