[Cronos]

Fair enough. The Church, on the other hand, makes public the names of all of its officials, clergy, laity appointed to Church posts, etc

Well, we are not an esoteric secret gnostic meeting of folks. Don't want to upset those who do belong to such groups (and they are inevitably OUTSIDE The Church)

[MarkBsnr]

***Well, we are not an esoteric secret gnostic meeting of folks.***

Not to hear the opposition. Except of course, when they find out that the Church is not secret, they simply blow it off and claim that it was formerly secret and that the Vatican vaults contain all the proofs that their little cults have always claimed.

***Don’t want to upset those who do belong to such groups (and they are inevitably OUTSIDE The Church)***

When you are your own Pope, you create your own church. And therefore everyone else is outside your church. Neat, eh?

[Marysecretary]

They may be outside the Catholic church but not outside the universal catholic church, the body of Christ, which HE founded, not mere man. I thank God they ARE outside the Catholic church.