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Domestic Church wrote: This article is good but it dances around the elephant in the livingroom. That elephant is a major cause of folks leaving right now...granted their catechesis may be weak, but when duplicity is blatant in the priesthood it takes extraordinary grace to remain Catholic.

It's sad that people leave. It's very sad that there are problems severe enough that make people feel that way.

Why a Catholic university would become involved with the culture of death is very disturbing. This kind of hypocrisy should not be present among genuine Catholic spiritual leaders:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1068813/posts Georgetown U Frankenstein Research

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1068614/posts Georgetown Weird Research Continues

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...granted their catechesis may be weak, but when duplicity is blatant in the priesthood it takes extraordinary grace to remain Catholic.

Duplicity may be blatant in the priesthood, that is certainly the message I get from the media. However, I don’t see duplicity in my parish priests when I go to confession, nor do I see duplicity in the deacons who occasional preach the homily, nor do I see it in the men and women who are Eucharistic Ministers, nor do I see it in the lectors, nor do i see it in the people who work in the office, nor do I see duplicity in the people who work in our food bank.

I know that some priests did betray both their scared calling and their office in one of the worst ways by abusing the children who were entrusted to them. I know that bishops covered up those abuses. I am both hurt and indignant that this happened and, I fear, is continuing to happen. I know that this is happening in the RCC in America. However, the Church that I see and experience in a day to day reality is not duplistic. The Church I see is made of men and women, with faults and warts, who are attempting to both server there fellow man and server God. I see blatant failures and stunning victories each week. The Church I touch, the Church I experience, is trying, often failing, but still trying to love God and serve one-another.