Reply #274: Second that and would add

[Gorobei]

That whatever the decrees that come from the top, the people on the front lines of the Catholic Church and it's charities and the monastic orders are doing good works every day and have been for ages. It is pointless and destructive to paint with a broad and dare I say, intolerant brush.

Day to day the average lay catholic and tens of thousands of nuns and missionaries do real work to end poverty and promote social justice on the front lines of the issues based on their faith and using the organization and funds that the Catholic church provides.

As mopinko says above, they could give a rats patootie what the guys in the funny hat say, they know how to live their faith and condemning them is wrong.