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2002-07-21
Lay Catholic group signs a petition urging pope to reform church: A Boston group "called for drastic changes in the way the church is governed".
Cool. Power to the people! When I was going to the Catholic church in Round Rock with Anthony last year, I found it to be a great community of people truly dedicated to trying to live with peace and love and goodness, and to helping such things spread through the world.
It must be horrible having the stigma of predatory priests and corrupt church leadership hanging over the heads of the many Catholics who work to make the church a truly good thing.
Catholics must also ''stop enabling through financial support the power structures'' responsible for the ''horrific consequences'' of the scandal and cover-ups, Doyle said.
Those are some serious words. I hope that they can get the pope to listen and get a clue, real quick. Otherwise I wouldn't be surprised if they split off from the mainline Catholic church. I wouldn't blame them...
Who would want to remain part of a church whose name has become a byword for child molestation and corrupt cover-ups? I sure wouldn't. Especially when earnest attempts by the people of the church to call for reform are ignored or rebuffed.
Make no mistake: a church is its people, not its leaders. The leaders have nothing without the flock. Nothing.
And this flock is *pissed*. Rightly so.
