Bishop Tobin attempts, unsuccessfully, to throw all the reasons people leave the Church into the single basket of not having a ‘strong faith.’  Some do leave the Church for trivial reasons that amount to little more than excuses, but others leave because the Church preaches one ethic and practices another.  Jesus condemned hypocrisy in no uncertain terms – yet the Church has learned to be quite comfortable with it.

How credible is the Church’s proclamation of ‘justice for all’ when it systematically practices/inflicts injustice on people of the wrong gender?  For all its pious bleating, the Church still proclaims that women just aren’t ‘good enough’ to be priests.  The utter lack of a theological basis for institutionalizing gender-discrimination leaves the Church attempting to defend the indefensible.   Imagine a Church that refused to ordain Africans - would we say those who left such a church lacked a 'strong faith?'  Bishop Tobin listens to people, but does not hear them!