text: Or perhaps Catholics should be allowed to use the commandments and church teachings the same way the bishops are allowed to do, deciding on when they should, and should not be held accountable, based on their own consciences?
   
  Again, all of this is in the context of a warning by Francis to avoid the virus of polarization.  Seems to me that those who want to hold the door and invite those who disagree with what he believes to leave, while at the same time  implying that the church is not badly hurt, are not hearing Francis.  If you define "church" as the people of God, that exodus suggests many people have been hurt.  And if one believes that the church is the institutional structure, the drop in numbers, the crisis in vocations, the closing  of churches, and the continuing inability to address the scandal in a way that the rest of the world sees as positive, just and compassionate, suggests to me that the church is indeed badly hurt.
  
  Build bridges, don't blow them up....