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It was back in the early 70's (I think) that the catholic university in Detroit has a non-catholic professor that spoke out strongly against abortion, it made the papers in Detroit and the head of the university(a priest) did not come to the mans defense, he was silent about the abortion issue and I do believe finally the professor was either asked to leave or left because of the pressure....

Where the rubber hit the road, the catholic leaders were silent....(I am not talking about the people in the pews). There is a great difference between what they write and how they act. This article read by Rush is right on. I will not try to defend the indefensible.

There is much to admire about catholic teaching, but its rarely practiced, even by some that sit in the pews...

I was part of the Synod of the 60's (or maybe the early 70's) please forgive me not remembering the year, at 73 my memory is not what it use to be and my choice was leader for was the* missions*....we had many meeting and I wrote up our conclusions but when it came time for the leaders to meet with the bishops in downtown Detroit, I was sick and could not make that last meeting our conclusions was given to another one of the area's to take to the final meeting....

Silent retreats were twice a year at the Dominican mother house in Oxford Michigan.

The last one I went to when the priest was giving his homily in the evening I asked a simple question when he started speaking of birth control and confession.

I asked: Is it the belief that when one goes to confession, one is confessing to the Lord (which I knew and believed) he said Yes.

I then asked....If one confesses to using birth control and ask the priest why they made a person choose between God and husband. And in confession the priest said......you do what is good for your marriage it is also a sacrament, is that as Jesus talking to us...he said yes..

There was a priest at a near by church that gave permission for using birth control during confession......is he speaking as the Lord to us......the poor priest giving the homily had no answer. The church was Saint Lawrence in Utica...

I remained a devote catholic for several more years, working in the parish, belonging to the altar society, on a Saturday had movie day for the children of the parish, rented the equipment and got the movie. The proceeds going to a mission...Women who had family or friends (priest or nun) that was a missionary put their name in a box and at the womens meeting one evening I chose one of the women to reach in and pick out a name....the money we raised went to Kerela (wrong spelling) India. The letters I received from them priest and nuns went into the archives of the church, even some pictures the nuns sent of hippo in a near by river....(don't ask me how I remember the picture, but the women thought they were great)

I found out early what the Bishops fund was going for simply by reading it in the parish paper....90% went to liberal causes and most not even catholic or christian causes...Hubby and I had an argument about how much to give to the once a year collection...I wanted zero, he wanted 100 dollars. It was quite a discussion, we compromised on 5 dollars...

This took quite a while to compose, sorry if it sounds disconnected at places...not easy to write...