AileenUSA,
So well put! Sadly, willful refusal to understand by the fatuous lords of any Vatican fiefdom simply widens the cracks in the already badly compromised foundation of the RC Church. The failure of this commission will ultimately pour salt in the still open emotional wounds and sense of betrayal felt so deeply by so many of us. Can it be so difficult to understand what is really at stake here? Is this Church even fit to wear the mantle of moral teacher? Can it not hold itself accountable? Can it not find in itself a capacity for true compassion, contrition, growth, and renewal? Will the ashes we take on our foreheads today foreshadow not only our eventual deaths but the death of the Church as fit moral educator? I pray not.