Faithful Citizenship Debate Continues | National Catholic Reporter

Faithful Citizenship Debate Continues | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: There is nothing like public controversy to put people on the record for how they think and who they stand with.  The take-away line is that the Pope is aware of the opposition in the US to his approach.  Perhaps that should be enough to withdraw the document - although I think the damage has been done to a few careerists who very much deserve to be outed. With this crowd, I don't expect an exhortation on the joys of Modernism - I suspect the Church will always be a little behind on that front - but it need not stay in place.  Still, focusing on both Religious Power (not freedom) and the settled law on gay marriage is enough to reject this quadrenniel guilt tripping of progressives from the altar.  Where gay marriage should be a worry is from those who would ask that their marriages be blessed or at least recognized - much in the way that Francis greeted and acknowledged one of his gay friends and his husband when he visited the U.S.  Can't wait to hear the vote. Too bad its a secret ballot.