[BigSkyFreeper]

Ummm, Ted was Pro-life and anti-sodomy way back in the day.

So he strayed from his mother's intense Catholic viewpoint.  What's your point?

[rollo tomasi]

No convictions, duh, just a political/power whore.

[Aliska]

Like others, it's scandalous, a whole series of scandals of this sort. But making a ruckus about it probably comes across to the other side and church powers that be as being self-righteous and just plain nasty.

So I will sit on the sidelines and silently grieve and try to find to find the grace to pray for mercy for us all.

I guess God is allowing this to happen, but we are told that He is not mocked. Jesus had the authority to get ugly with the moneychangers (rightfully so), but that authority has not been delegated to we ordinary people just trying to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling".

With few notable exceptions, it has always been thus. Church leaders are blinded and intimidated by the moneyed and powerful and bend the rules for them. Not for Henry VIII though. All England was lost to the church, and many suffered the aftermath of that. Now the pendulum is starting to swing the other way after the passing of many generations.