[Cowgirl of Justice]

This is beyond anything I can even understand or accept.

I formally renounce being Catholic.

[SkyDancer]

Don’t renounce your Catholicism because of this strange pope. You’re allegiance is to G-d through Yeshua, not him.

[LydiaLong]

This is beyond anything I can even understand or accept.

I formally renounce being Catholic.
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I don’t blame you. I promise you that in our lifetime, this Pope will advocate gay marriage.

[homegroan]

I left long ago because they kept changing ‘the rules’.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, on the face of it, there's nothing corrupt about revoking a priest's faculties (his permission to function as a priest) without formally laicizing him.

If he remains "on the books" as a priest, at least he has supervision. If for instance he flees his monastic residence, people will know. If he's laicized, he's just cut loose. No more supervision or accountability of any kind. Arguably, that's NOT what you want.

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Needless to say, I'm not saying this to justify Pope Francis' decisions. He has been rewarding evildoers and marginalizing (if not punishing) good and upright priests and bishops for nearly his whole pontificate.

Which doesn't make the Catholic Church, in its doctrines and the faith, hope and love of all its members, false. Among even Jesus' hand-picked men, was Judas.

[Melian]

No matter how much humans fail us, I could never leave Catholicism or the Eucharist. To whom would I go?

The Catholic Church has the fullness of the faith. Even Peter and Thomas were idiots at times— and they had the advantage of having Christ standing right in front of them working miracles. Human leadership of the Church Militant will always be flawed... but that’s the way Christ set it up.