I'm still here.

[Brigid]

I, too, have my disagreements with the Church (ordination for women, anyone?), but there is still much beauty here. I enjoy the Mass and saying the rosary (the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, too), and many traditions that I feel are still meaningful today. I am fortunate enough to live near a parish church where I feel comfortable, with a priest who is probably deeply distressed by what is going on (if you could get him to talk about it). I am not going to leave the church to a bunch of celibate men in an ivory tower when it belongs just as much to me as it does to them.

[FarLeftRage]

1. As am I...

Agree with what you have posted here.

Said the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, on Mercy Sunday.

I figured that it will take an awful lot of troubles to separate me from the Church.