Election politics pits progressive Catholics against conservative church leaders

[Shana A]

Election politics pits progressive Catholics against conservative church leadership
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 06:00:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=C9CB02E088919E8E0C3447AF1CFFEBC1?diaryId=7376

It looks like the hardline bishops are flexing their muscle against "renegade" progressive parishes - the iron fist of Papa Ratzi is coming down on American Catholics. (NYT):

    The escalating efforts by more-liberal Catholics are provoking a vigorous backlash from some bishops and the right.

[tekla]

Such has been true about just about every election and the Church, going back to Rome at least.

[RebeccaFog]

hopefully the rebels will have backbone enough to accomplish something.  I heard some LGBT friendly Jesuits are breaking away from their fascist leaders.

[tekla]

The Jesuit churches in SF are very accepting.  When I feel like going to Mass (twice a year or so) I go to the Jesuit and Dominican churches here and not the ones run by the local bishop.  They don't seem to have any problem with any of it.