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As a catholic FReeper of long standing, I resent your accusation that Catholics are not up to the American ideal. Rome doesn't rule me, Jesus does. The catholic church you THINK you know is not so. You should be as worried about some mainline protestant churches, that shun Jesus for modernity, with openly gay bishops, declaring all scripture allegory and myth, and the life yet to come a fallacy.

Here here !! Now you're talking like the wombats in the 60's did before JFK became President. That's like saying Alito and any other Italians should be discounted as fit for the judiciary because of the Mafia's existence. If you were interested enough, you'd have learned of Alito's judicial record, adherence to the Constitution and the law, and his integrity. You've obviously deprived yourself of essential information prior to posting such blather. Ridiculous.

As a catholic FReeper of long standing, I resent your accusation that Catholics are not up to the American ideal. Rome doesn't rule me, Jesus does. The catholic church you THINK you know is not so. You should be as worried about some mainline protestant churches, that shun Jesus for modernity, with openly gay bishops, declaring all scripture allegory and myth, and the life yet to come a fallacy.

Well said.

I also think the Catholic Church more closely than any other church/denomination parallels the plight of our country's self-government with respect to liberalism. (i.e. though it's ancient foundation is a bedrock of truth and goodness, it's leadership over time is still subject to the meanderings of fallen human perspective and the lure of a "new and improved" church/government). Each therefore (the RCC and our Republic) must be willing to continually purge itself of evil within it's ranks -- evil which often poses as "positive, liberating change". It must gaurd against the natural erosion of it's core values by measuring all changes back against the foundation (Christ and early Chruch Fathers /the Constitution and its framers) as the true barometer.

Thank God for Pope Benedict XVI and Justice Samuel Alito!