[Qwinn]

Then those people are highly uneducated as to Catholic teaching. That is not the Catholic Church's position, and it looks like they got a bad priest to teach them.

Are you of the notion that if there exists bad priests teaching incorrect theology, that discredits the entire Church and makes their official positions meaningless?

Would you be defending the Church if the official Church position were that the Bible is inaccurate but there were a small number of priests teaching what you believe to be correct? Somehow, I doubt it. There are bad priests in the Catholic religion just like there are bad people in -any- religion. I, for one, have never seen an extremely Catholic televangelist that claims God said to give him money or he would be taken home. Does that mean everyone who shared his faith was corrupt?

Qwinn

[JohnnyZ]

That is not the Catholic Church's position, and it looks like they got a bad priest to teach them.

Most Catholics don't get ANY priest to teach them. They know what they learn from their parents (if anything), what they learn in catechism probably from lay teachers (if they remember it), and what they hear during the homily (if they pay attention).

Most of it is half-remembered, heard from an equally poorly informed friend . . . etc.

[Just mythoughts]

Hey, when someone believes something, you think I can change their mind. I have been told by others that this is not true.

To hear the same words come out of a Bishop 2000 miles away and no connection to the Catholics I know. Sure has my head spinning.

I got turned off by organized religion and took to studying what is written. I got really tired of getting many different answers to the same questions. Finally reached a point of tuning out labels of religion and their doctrine.

Reading this was shocking, I have been told that I would have to go through Catholic teachings to understand, when I would ask questions about what the scripture said. Lay people could not answer questions that I did not understand yet they had attended church for years.

[steve8714]

Will Episcopals defend their Church even if the present administrators of the Communion see nothing wrong with the consecration of an openly gay Bishop who left his wife and daughters for his boy toy?
Don't E-clergy take vows?
I believe there are still good churchmen in the Communion, and will not condemn them for one group that happens to get some temporal power. Doesn't the Catholic Church deserve a like courtesy?