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Yeah I’m gonna leave the country because some constant Catholic bashing piece of sh.t like you said to :)

“Oh I moved because some sick f..k with a hard on for bashing ANYTHING Catholic (and likely some other VERY DEEP ####ing issues, suggested it”

You’re such a loser it hurts :)

I’m FAR from alone. Others just don’t have the balls to tell you.

What a clown :)

Not to pick at a scab, but there are 177 Archdioceses in the US, and each one of them have a Bishop. The previous article was based chiefly on the rantings of one Bishop. Now, fair enough, one Bishop elevating globull warming above salvation is one Bishop too many.

But there was this story today whereby a different Bishop makes a very pious recommendation (effectively recommending a return to saying the Mass facing the east/with his back to the congregation, the way is was prior to the 1960s).

While this may be inside Catholic baseball type of stuff, the reality is the Church is a bit like America insofar as the leadership and the institution are not one in the same. That is, the American system of government wasn't defective when the defective Obama was the Head of the Executive Branch, or when some bureaucrat says something looney. In turn, when the Pope or a Bishop says stupid things, that doesn't mean the Church is defective.

On the taxation question, you have to take that up with the Founders. In the United States, the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution prevents the US federal government and (through incorporation doctrine) the 50 state governments from imposing church taxes. In 1947, the US Supreme Court ruled in Everson v. Board of Education that "No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion."