text: Thanks Liliane:
  
  "not real Catholics"!!!!!!    The triumph of authority over mercy. 
  
  One of the most-used, unfair challenges to inclusion, debate, freedom of speech, education, advocacy, searching, and learning is to cavalierly declare and dismiss as "inauthentic" those doing the holy work of discernment and conscience formation, an oft-agonizing and demanding exercise.
  
  Also, on the topic you noted, nothing brings the discussion to a halt more so than all-male authorities merging "abortion and contraception" as equal threats or as "immoral equivalents." 
  
  Expertise and experience are necessary but not sufficient components of teaching and learning. Authority must reflect those components or it relinquishes its credibility and its ability. Ergo, "not real." The voice of women must not only be heard and tolerated, it must be respected as the valid voice of "real" Catholics.