[Antoninus]

In concluding her Jan. 30 column about homosexuality and the Catholic Church, Mary Jean Smith writes: "The archbishop and others are wrong on this issue. I am not guilty of mortal sin."

Mary Jean needs to be excommunicated. She's a stubborn public sinner who has taken the further step of repudiating her bishop on an issue where she's plainly in the wrong.

For what it's worth, Mary Jean, there is neither love nor compassion in enabling a child in a sinful relationship. It is only cowardice--the inability of a parent to tell their child that what they're doing is wrong and unacceptable, even if it means estranging that child.

Confirming someone in their sin is a worse sin, if you ask me.

[chuckles]

....."Confirming someone in their sin".....

Romans 1: the last 4-5 verses. If you support sin, even if you don't participate, you are as guilty as the perp. That's the fallacy behind Guliani saying, I don't like abortion, but I don't want to tell a woman what she can't do........Guilty!!