Don, your detractors spent the last 35 years DEMANDING assent to every word uttered by the Pope. It was for them the hallmark of whether you were a 'proper' Catholic or not. Indeed, we would have been led to believe that the sum total of scripture was one verse - Thou art Peter... It was quoted without end and was the bedrock of every view these people expressed.

It is singularly the biggest mystery to befall the Church in the last three years how that particular scripture text has suddenly disappeared into the ether, airbrushed out as if it had never been there in the first place.

It continues to be a source of tremendous mirth for many of us to watch them bleat about the inerrancy of tradition and scripture when they themselves dropped their flagship text so easily. Now their latest fad is to pounce on a text about marriage/divorce. Having proved their spiritual shallowness, why should anyone listen to a word they have to say?