text: Regarding: ""He neither quotes nor rescinds present church teaching. This lack of clarity is not helpful as each side can quote the pope to underline their own position."
  - How does a Jesuit say: "Talk among yourselves and let me know what you decide. The door is open."
  - Archbishop Francis, in effect, is guiding the church to bring its traditions into balance and at the same time letting her let go of the barnacles that look like tradition but really are ways to sink the ship or at least to slow it down so that more barnacles might adhere.
  - The Eucharist is both food and medicine. Many in the institutional church forget that those that need it the most have been kept from it.
  - Jesus does not need humans to be sinless in order to be with him -- he has redeemed us. That is, the Eucharist is not a reward for sinlessness. but what we need to grow as children of God.
  - The guidelines, were there to be any, should be simply: come and receive.