text: Love your words. We have, I believe substituted the myth of certainty for the wonder of awe and the breadth of God's love. We tend to make God into our image and when I contend that, I mean the self-appointed knowledgables who are really egos. We set our own elevated standard, a bar that excludes anyone different or whom we consider different, ie.,  virtually everyone. That's not God, if there is one.
  For me it is quite simple in its complexity: if God is, as those like our resident trads claim, then God screwed up so royally in creation that s/he doesn't deserve the title. Card. Ratzinger was correct, in a sense, the ordinary christian is a simple person. The ordinary person is just that ordinary and he and she are the measure of what God loves and what God does, not herded. Theology is good, poetry and music are great, love and treating people well is the best. That's what God wants. We Catholics have to relearn what Christ saw, that is what we are and can be. What we can together.