Re: Unanswered Questions

["Barbara B. Wolf" <lupa@gwi.net>]

At 07:05 PM 11/16/97 -0800, Alan Harrison wrote:

>I know many people who have felt that they can no longer continue in the
>C of E and who have consequently become Roman Catholics. They have done
>so because they AGREE with the Holy Father's stand on matters such as
>the ordination of women, abortion and sexual morality.

And how about matters of birth control? (Let alone infallibility.)  I am not
intending to downplay the level of their agreement with the Pope, Alan; I
hve been curious about what happens when people do "pope".  As you may know,
the RC's in the US have a tendency
to listen to the Vatican and then go their own way.  (The recent thread on
"Shortening the Leash" was instructive, I think, as have been JPII's recent
appointments to American dioceses.)  Would you expect a similar selective
attitude amongst the people you refer to?


Barbara Wolf
lupa@GWI.NET

        "But we've got to be careful not to reduce people by cramming
        them in the limits of our understanding, haven't we?"

                                                Reginald Hill