What the Church teaches and what I believe are not going to be fully expressed in this forum and I do not need to engage in some effort at self-justification. Neither will I answer to comments that either insult my intelligence or arrive at conclusions that are pejorative and arrived at from reading a post out-of-context. I DO believe she does not speak well for the Church and I do not have to endorse her version of orthodoxy to be Catholic. If everyone in the Church were like her, or like you, I would never enter a Catholic church door again. Never, ever. 
       Fortunately this is not the case. And I hope this issue will be the last I address in Civil Comments and I can hang up this USER NAME for good. One has, or should have, a relationship with  God and the  Church should nurture and encourage that relationship. When it fails to do that people leave, or don't go more than once or twice a year, some more often. What you are encouraging, as is Joan, is a relationship by proxy.