Who knew Bob had any limits supporting the far left?

The lefties would like nothing more than for religious organizations, Boy Scouts, and other groups that maintain "traditional values" to become irrelevant.

I´m not a Catholic, but I have no reason to question their desire to serve their fellowmen, and be disciples of Christ. (Do some fall short? Absolutely! That´s human nature. And many well-meaning people indeed equate government handouts with Christlike charity... I had close family members who supported Dear Leader for that very reason!)

I hope the new Pope will do his best to steer his 1 billion followers (irrelevant? yeah, right!) in a traditional direction, and resist the pressure to become "The Church of What´s Happ´nin´ Now." (Nod to Flip Wilson.)

Just "being" a homosexual priest is very different than being a sexually active priest - whether homo- or hetero-.

Nothing wrong with it as long as you keep your vows to remain chaste.

Rush is right. I was born into a Catholic family, baptized and confirmed, and began to distance myself from the church as a young man as I became a Reagan conservative and a "small-l" libertarian. It lost people like me because of liberalism and the abandonment of their core values. (If the church was serious about their beliefs, they would have excommunicated Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy et al.) If they do not shed liberalism, they´ll be irrelevant.

The Catholic Church is not against a person because they are homosexual. It is the sexual act that they are against, as they are against all sex outside of marriage. As far as irrelevancy goes, the church is standing its ground on 2000 years of tradition and existence.

to make Sally happy, they could try smoke of ´´other color´´. Perhaps mauve. Or pink.

how utterly silly, Sally...

Many cardinals agree about taking visible action: - Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke publicly stated that John Kerry should not receive communion because of his support for abortion. JP2 and B16 were both very outspoken, conservative popes. And I will never forget that the miracle of a lone man (The bishop of Rome) addressing 100,000s who began chanting ´We want God´ in a Polish square, destroyed the grip of the communists/socialists.

Oh, well, Sally Quinn has spoken.

Now a 2,000 year old institution must change, because she says so. What a babbling fool.

Relevant with whom? Relevant with a Bible Lo-Fo like Sally Quinn, or relevant with God?

Hopefully, we will learn before it´s too late that any person or group of people, including churches, who think they have the authority to disregard or change the Word of God to their own liking is certain to find that they have perverted it and will be accursed. (Galatians 1:6-9)

Revelation 22:18-19 says, "For I testify unto everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death."

That is repeated in Proverbs 16:25.

The word of God is what is relevant to our salvation and hope of eternal life with him regardless of what man considers relevant.

Quinn & Bernstein having gay friends who are in the catholic church confirms a suspicion I´ve had for years; Gays infiltrated the church back 70´s.... and after 911, when most Americans flocked back to church... the progressives pulled the "Go" button to release gay abuse in the church.. to stop the surge towards faith.

I´m with #4. One can not buy Absolution.
The pelosi´s and kerry´s et alia IMHO should be ex communicated and those priest who are being bought, defrocked.

Those pope guys are too darn Catholic to be relevant.

Has anyone told Quinn and Bernstein that this isn´t political? Lofo voters don´t get to vote in this one so their disinformation campaign is pointless .

Excuse me now, I´m going to join the 1.5 Bbbbbillion irrelevant Catholics praying for the Cardinals as the select the next Pope

Given their dropping circulation numbers and falling Nielsen ratings, the ones who need to worry about irrelevancy are liberal dorks like Quinn and Bernstein and the rags they work for and the networks they appear on.