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How many divorced, remarried Catholics do you know who take communion? How many who have been able to get their first marriage anulled despite having raised children together?

I suspect in time that the Catholic church will ordain woman and homosexuals as well.

A little leaven.

I suspect in time that the Catholic church will ordain woman and homosexuals as well.

A little leaven.

That will happen as soon as the Catholic church permits abortion. At present, they don't even allow birth control, and the pope has excluded the ordination of women on the basis of dogma, not doctrine (though I don't believe it was stated "ex cathedra"). Does the term "depositum fidei" signify anything to you?

The Catholic Church has been ordaining homosexuals for years, they just haven't acknowledged it. Why else all the abuse scandals? My sisters, who have fairly recently become Roman Catholics (after a year of RCIA) have been through a sucession of foreign born priests, from India and from Africa...at least they haven't had to have a homosexual one yet. But they have no say in who is their priest unless they want to change parishes, which is not so easy in small town America.
They did have a problem originally because they grew up in the Baptist church, which will baptize you anytime you feel repentant or an evangelist comes to town, but you never have a Baptismal certificate. The Romans say there is only one baptism but you have to prove it. So they came up with "conditional baptism". You have to go to RCIA for a year, and you can't take communion for that year before they will accept you as "baptized". They won't accept your word for it. I don't like to go to church if I can't take communion, I feel rejected for some reason.