text: This is really well done, asking questions about what really is a community and pointing to what happens in the attempt to form perfect communities by permitting only perfect people to join, fully participate, stay a part of the community.  I also think we have to acknowledge how complicated things are now with many overlapping communities that are part of our lives, but playing different roles in our lives.  
  
  When it comes to faith communities, I think this is the power statement:  "Love thy neighbor, not thy expectation of the perfect neighborhood."  We have quite a bit of a problem doing that within Catholic circles these days.  Lets all pray about that.