[JCEccles]

It's been interesting to watch the new Pope and the impact his obvious conservatism has had on the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church appears to be undergoing a reinvigoration as a result of the Pope's insistence on following doctrines that liberal Catholics eschew and condemn.

Christianity has always beens about a community of believers, not an ad hoc collection of rugged individualists who interpret and reinterpret the faith according ot their own private whimsy and desires. It is a flock of sheep and lambs, not a scattering of self-indulgent cats. But because it is a community, it is essential that its leadership be structured according to biblical principles. The clarion call must be clear, the commitment to withstand the arrows of insult from the enemy unyielding out front, where the shepherds stand.

For whatever reason, women are ill fitted to the role, although they are brilliantly fitted to other roles.

[ichabod1]

It is a flock of sheep and lambs, not a scattering of self-indulgent cats.

Take a drive through Liberty County, Texas, northeast of Houston. The number of one-off single church denominations is astounding. Plenty of self-indulgent cats out there thanks to that renegade monk.

[trisham]

For whatever reason, women are ill fitted to the role, although they are brilliantly fitted to other roles.

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Exactly. It is good to see the Vatican continuing to clarify this issue.

Much mischief was done with the birth of "feminism", which unfortunately has taken root with dissatisfied females in this country in particular.