After so many many crimes, the church is beginning – just barely – to recognize that it is consuming and destroying itself with its absolutism and hatreds, Which include the hatred of the gays, now that its hatred of the Jews is mostly ended after the Holocaust made that untenable.

I personally call on all true Catholics, who believe that the mission of the church is Love, not denigration of a minority and its involvement in politics, to close their pocketbooks. In one year, the church will be desperate. Really desperate. And change will come, even if it means telling Rome what it is really about.

And I might add that polls show that 50% of Catholics under 30 support gay marriage – not just the pseudo marriages called eg Civil Unions or Domestic partnerships.

But the church changes so slowly. It needs a knock on the head to wake it up. Before so many good Catholics go join the so similar Episcopal church. Which just voted to accept gay priests in relationships for all levels within the church. As did the Evangelical Lutherans.

The tide is turning. The only question is how many will suffer so long before the church wakes up, puts its arch right wing Pope in a nursing home. Or ultimately sees itself preaching to the dust in the pews and the dust of the departed.