Archbishop Chaput is the reason I left the Catholic Church. I'd just come home from graduate school after a wonderful time with the Newman Center where I learned about Kung and Rahner and an RCIA where we used Christ Among Us as our text. I thought, for instance, it was OK to work within the Church for women priests and same-sex relationships. Chaput put all that to rest! After many conversations, I went back to the Episcopal Church.

I'm now a part of UCC, where the ideas of Kung, Schillebeeckx, Chittister, et. al., can live and breathe, and where Pope Francis is admired as the leader of Christianity. Mainline Protestantism is where Vatican II went, in case you're looking for it! :) (BTW, Jesus is present at the UCC, at the head of the table at every communion.)