ALL the bishops are awful. Everyone seems to think Bishop Olmsted here in Phoenix is wonderful but he had a letter out this weekend even before decision was announced My parish pastor( a young man currying favor with the bishop) tweeted against the President before the DACA announcement and the parish Facebook page addresses it, too. My husband has had it with all this crap and I can’t argue with him.
I know how personal this is, but I’d like to make a comment about my own experience.
I left the church after Ted kennedy was granted an annulment from a 25 year marriage. Also he was publicly pro-abortion and received communion.
Each time i have considered coming back something erupts, child molestation and cover-up, Mahoney in LA and others refusing to cooperate with the DA’s offices and the pope leaving him in office till the crisis subsided; abortionist and politicians who supported them receiving communion, and i can point to a few others.
if you like to attend church as part of your love and worship of God, there are other places to go. or you can build your own religious practice through prayer and readings and smaller groups.
best wishes and may God bless.