THE OFFERINGS PRESENTED HERE REMIND ME WHY I AM A CATHOLIC.
And then there are the actions and inactions of the present Hierarchy of that same Church.

• The unwillingness and failure to do their duty when faced with flagrant crimes and sins within their midst.
• The unwillingness to consider and address some of the root causes of those crimes and sins...and of the marked loss of participation of the Laity, the Body of  the Church: celibacy and the unmarried state for the Clergy; the prohibition against non-abortifacient contraception; the failure to consider the biologic contributors to the state of Homosexuality; the intolerance for divorced and remarried Catholics, at least on a case-by-case basis; the support for the general application of "Annulment", a farce as often practiced; the tolerance for "Catholics" who are pro-Abortion, all supporters of that abomination who should be excommunicated from the Church. 

Both the Magisterium and Pope Francis are failing the Church..a Great Disappointment.
My hope in that group is waning. My Hope in God never will.

GS