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In reply to the discussion: For those of you who want me to lay off the Pope: "Let Me Show You" [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)I must tell you, barbtries, I saw this headline on MSNBC that said the next pope is expected to be more conservative.
It's just like politics here. The biggest idiots among the bad guys say the problem is they need to be MORE CONservative. And That. Is. NOT. It!!!!! That is NOT the way we need to go. The frickin' republi-CONS want to go MORE CONservative. And at the same time, the country and the demographics and the enlightenment is all moving the other way.
The Vatican going MORE conservative is NOT the way to regain the confidence of Catholics like me. And there are lots of Catholics like me. A more CONservative church won't do anything but just drive people like me away permanently. I'm already so alienated as a woman, as a mother, as the mother of a son, and also as a progressive. I just despair sometimes.