If the article cited at the beginning of this thread is accurate, the VOTF folks are either serious dissenters or not very bright.
If it is true that they have invited a speaker from Planned Parenthood, then their Catholicity is legitimately called into questioned. If it is true that they have invited a speaker from Women's Ordination Conference and Call to Action, then their Catholicity is legitimately called into questioned.
If they are truly trying to focus on helping to alleviate the damage from the problems of priestly pederasty and the criminal cover-up by some bishops, why are they even inviting these groups? What does pro-murder Planned Parenthood have to do with holding bishops accountable with regard to covering predator priests? What does the Women's Ordination Conference or Call to Action have to do with holding the bishops accountable?
Even giving the greatest benefit of the doubt to the VOTF organizers, that they themselves are not dissenters, inviting these other groups seems, then, just plain stupid. And frankly, the stupidity of some is a significant cause of the current mess.
I'd be willing to hear another side to this, why they view it as necessary to invite the most anti-Catholic folks to meetings of Catholic laypeople. If you have any insight, I'd love to hear it. But honestly, sinkspur, I have my doubts that even upon hearing their "side" I'd think that any of this was a good idea.
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