Reply #12: I used to go out to Catholic Answers and torture myself

[dflprincess]

A friend recommended it thinking it might draw me back to the Church (just the opposite). I used to amuse myself by posting questions designed to make heads explode - I'll give them this much - unlike Free Republic they don't toss you off the board for disagreeing with them.

My pre-Vatican II experience was during grade school in the late 50s and very early 60s - maybe it was a kinder, gentler church because of John XXIII and the winds of change were blowing.

My aunt lives in the New Ulm Diocese and was quite happy to see Neinstadt go. She said he did his best to set relationships with other denominations back 100 years. I work with someone who has friends in the diocese that left when he wouldn't allow their child to have a gluten free host because Jesus used wheat at the last supper. Apparently the only answers Neinstadt could come up with in this "WWJD" moment was "He'd give the kid a choice of never receiving the sacrament or getting sick."

And, if free thinkers are getting filtered out of the priesthood what will become of the Jesuits?