[Desdemona]

Our media is still in a feeding frenzy so no matter what the Church does, they will still report the negative.

And twist the message to make it meet what they want it to be.

When I heard the outline ffrom Cardinal George last night, it sounded far tougher than anything civil law has. They just tightened up the whole thing.

[Salvation]

This outline?

Agenda

Items on the agenda include:

• Norms on implementing the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
• Report on the possibility of convoking a Plenary Council
• A document on a Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and Respect the Dignity of All God's Children
• Complementary norms from the Committee on Canonical Affairs which govern fundraising appeals, dollar limits which determine when a diocese must get approval from the Holy See to "alienate, or sell, property, and norms governing the leasing of church property
• Three items from the Committee on Liturgy: the translation of the ordination rite, the translation of the General Instruction on The Roman Missal, and the five-year review of the Lectionary
• A proposal for a new document in support of Catholic elementary and secondary schools
• A revised document on domestic violence
• An unprecedented joint statement from the bishops conferences of Mexico and the United States titled Strangers No Longer, A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration
• A request for a new pastoral statement on stewardship addressed to young adults
• Diocesan Financial Issues, a new document which will assist dioceses in their accounting and financial reporting
• A Pro-Life statement on the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.

[Salvation]

Voting on amendments to Roe vs. Wade right now.

[ninenot]

Yeah, it's tighter.

USCC expected to toss the hot potato to Rome and have Rome seriously weaken it. Instead, Rome simply asked for a few 'due process' items, which would be required under American civil-prosecution law anyway, and fired it right back.

That makes the Bishops really responsible for their actions, or lack thereof.

Not really what a sizeable number of American Bishops wanted...responsibility means accountability...

[Chancellor Palpatine]

They just tightened up the whole thing.

If you repeat it to yourself enough, you might even start believing it, and it will be less of a mischaracterization.

[RobbyS]

As I read it, canon law is tougher than our civil law. What galls me is that it wasn't being applied by the bishops. They failed to use the power that the Church put in their hands.