[wideawake]

If you disagree, please explain why Kennedy's can be so pro-abortion without repercussion, and how they can get divorced (excuse me, annulled) so easily.

(1) Because many bishops are weak and afraid of controversy.

(2) They are afraid that if many nominal Catholics are forced to choose between the Democrats and the Church they'll choose the Democrats because so many Catholics in the pew have been so poorly catechized.

This means an open schism in the Church, and no bishop wants to be accused of mishandling a situation and giving occasion for a schism.

Trust me, if the bishops were motivated purely by money, every scandal-ridden priest would have been immediately defrocked and excommunicated, if only to avoid multi-million dollar lawsuits.

In reality, bishops want to smooth things over - even things that simply cannot be smoothed over.

[lizbet]

God is going to clean His house...thoroughly. Those people who flaunt wrong choices and lifestyles will have it thrown back in their faces.

[dangus]

>>If you disagree, please explain why Kennedy's can be so pro-abortion without repercussion, and how they can get divorced (excuse me, annulled) so easily.

In all fairness, I *love* the grounds for which they granted Joe Kennedy's annulment: Mental incapacity. He got the annulment, but it destroyed him politically. As much as I loathed him, Cardinal Law occasionally got it right.