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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We left.  There was simply no way we could continue to financially and otherwise support an organization that abused children and covered it up. Over and over again.  We love our Episcopal church! [/quote]

This is exactly us too.[/quote]

Same, and same for my parents.  Aside from the pervasive pedophilia with clergy, I don’t want my children brought up in an organization where women can’t be leaders.  What a horrible signal for children.[/quote]

Mother Teresa, Pope hugging her, Cardinals falling all over themselves to get close to her. Horrible signal.[/quote]

Yet, she wouldn’t be allowed to lead mass or be a priest.  [/quote]

So what?  You’re confusing administration with substance. The Church isn’t the administrators. It is the living embodiment of Christ, continuing his presence on earth. The administrators aren’t typically the ones feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, comforting the mourning.

And the priest doesn’t “lead” Mass (which, being a proper noun, needs to be capitalized).  He celebrates it.

God’s own mother was never a priest. But she is held in greater esteem than any ordained cleric.  The obsessive focus on the externals of worldly “power” (not that the bishops have much of that these days, let alone the priests) bespeaks a superficial and completely misunderstood vision of what the Church is and how it functions.

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