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>I raise these questions as a note of caution. Catholics are feeling scandalized. We're looking for answers and explanations. We also want solutions and reforms. I recommend all of us look down the road a distance before we allow our present passions to make the damage worse than it already is.

Right now, all three major religions are under attack. Just yesterday I did a thread, where I started:

But, as we try to figure out what's going on in the world, think of this bit of strangeness:

1) The Western Establishment is at war with "radical" Islam for fomenting terrorism...

2) The Western Establishment is at war with the Catholic Church for tacitly accepting pedophilia...

3) The Western Establishment is at war with Israel for oppressing those poor Arabs...
The Western Establishment has found reasons for being at war with the world's three biggest religions.

Imagine the context wasn't world events, but the business world. Imagine first ABC found itself under financial attack. Then CBS found itself under financial attack. Then NBC found itself under financial attack. Would anyone assume it was "random events" hitting three similar targets at once? Wouldn't everyone be looking for some power bloc which would stand to benefit from the battle?

Hasn't the destruction of religion been an agenda item for one or two (in)famous global movements?!

[House Wants Clergy Housing Bill (The Hot War Against Religion) ]

I think now would be a good time to question all our passions, and try to see if there is a "bigger picture" around each of these individual "wars."

Mark W.

>Some in the Vatican have already gone on record saying that homosexuals shouldn't be ordained at all. What happens if the Church reaches this as an official conclusion? Will it mean that all priests with homosexual inclinations are invalidly ordained? Will some Catholics actively demand they "out" themselves and "resign" their priesthood? < Mr. Deal asks an interesting question. The answer is - there is already a 1961 law, still ineffect, prohibiting homosexual men from being ordained. (Talk about "going on the record")

We don't need new laws, we need Bishops that will adhere to laws already on the books. It seems the essence of common sense that homosexuals ought to be excluded from Ordination. Good Lord, I feel like I am SO out of touch with modernity. Benedicamus Domino.