Don’t understand why catholics are always claiming they are “victims” when their leadership clearly and without question have established ‘a document’ by those the Vatican appoints to speak on it’s behalf, and make it public for it’s members to see.
Then there’s a mad rush to say that it’s not true...and the gibberish and confoggled attempts to protect themselves from the truth begins.
It isn’t people are catholic bashing, though they’d like us all to believe that, it’s what the leadership is doing and stating that people are objecting to.....it’s really not as confusing as it most assuredly will become.
Ok, just ignore anything that comes out of Rome. I can do that.
It seems to me that it's non-Catholics who are claiming to be the victims here. On the one hand, you're outraged that the Pope claims to stand for the truth. How dictatorial, how arrogant. Yet you're also outraged that he doesn't enforce a unified line of academic thought. The institution the Pope heads, like any college of intellectuals, contains some mild (by European or Obama Administration standards) Lefty nuttiness. Christ Himself did His work happily surrounded by men who had a lot of mistaken opinions to start with, most of whom turned out all right. The Church has never been eager to yank up the tares and damage the wheat in the process.
You've had more than 2,000 years to get used to this idea, keep trying: The Pope is the Vicar of Christ. When he speaks on what really matters, which is faith and morals, he is authoritative and—Catholics believe—infallible. For the other stuff, you're on your own. I remind you that Christ Himself stayed out of policy questions ("Render unto Caesar . . .") I'm sure you can handle that.