text: Regarding: "He [BishThomas of Springfield] issued a decree last week setting guidelines and limits for how the pastors in his diocese treat people in same-sex marriages."
  - This is a judgement against ArchbFrancis of Rome, and of ArchbBlase of Chicago who is BishT metropolitan archbishop.
  - No doubt the leadership of ArchbBlase in the Catholic Conference of Illinois, the political lobbying group of the bishops, also annoys  BishT. 
  - An interesting question is, 'did he alert the metropolitan and the other suffragan bishops and episcopal vicars of Chicago before releasing his broadside?' No surprise if he did not.
  - While it is reasonable that anyone would think that a union between two of the same gender is no sacrament of marriage, denying sacraments to those in such union is not reasonable. If the goal is to force anyone to confess a sin which for a person in a same gender union does not know, then that goal is a sacrilege.
  - Refusing funerals is a smoke screen.