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Old 07-31-2013, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
The Catholic church moves VERY slowly to change and has many, many difficulties with acceptance of knowledge that we all know is more valid than what it espouses.

BUT...it makes my old heart happy to see a truly kind man with a loving heart walk in the white robes. Perhaps he will move The Catholic Church forward. But don't expect too much.
Gracie, Agree with you on that. I had too many disagreements with the Catholic church hierarchy to call myself a Catholic. So I left the Catholic church in 1996 and joined the Episcopal church. Close to half of the people at my church are former Catholics.