I Just Got Back From Catholic Mass...And It Felt Like A Republican Fundraiser.

[MichiganVote]

58. I grew up in the church and I mean I REALLY grew up in the church.

So I am familiar with the "I'm hurt" crapola. But I still say, when the realities of the immorality of hiding the abuse of children and of adults by clergy becomes 2nd to the, 'I just can't handle leaving b/c of pressures from friends or family'-you or anyone else needs a serious reality check.

At one time church affiliation was akin to a union membership. Still is in some locale and among some denominations. Today I would argue that is less about culture and more about the marketing of belief and faith.

The lions share of the work that has been undertaken by the victims and their families to bring change to the RCC has not yet effected sustained change. And btw, the husband who was divorced -if he had been previously married in the Roman Catholic faith-is the party who is denied communion per the RCC tenets. If he had not been married previously in the RCC, and is a member of the church today, he and she is entitled to communion. I suspect the priest in question had another reason for his choice.