"This we can agree on, catechises has been terrible for a long, long time. I however don't think it will be better with moral ambiguity. "

The issue I had with the Church was the Church of No under JPII.  I like moral ambiguity and think there should be more of it.  I feel like Evangelicals are taught how to have a personal relationship with Jesus, which is something that is sorely lacking in the Catholic Church.  I thought Catholicism was more about reciting the rules and the things that you couldn't do than it was about a personal relationship with God.  The God I grew up with seemed like a cold and distant dictator who I should be scared of, not someone I should want to talk to or have a relationship with.

As for gossip, the whole issue is that Benedict want the Church purer and smaller so people in parishes took him at his words and ran those who were "sinners" out.