If your REALLY regret the meeting, denounce her viewpoint.

Because her position on same-sex marriage is perfectly aligned with that of the RCC and its leader. If the pope had somehow been "tricked" into a meeting with an advocate of same-sex marriage, you can be certain that he and the Vatican would be announcing from the mountaintop that her viewpoint was NOT the church's. But they're playing a two-faced game and trying to appeal to gullible liberals as well as conservatives and hoping no one will notice.

Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

Stay strong, Frank!

and that when one casts bread upon the waters it eventually comes back to you in ways which might cause a sense of regret.

When you realize you have wronged others repeatedly and you feel regret first you are supposed to cease the hurtful behavior, confess to the wrong and then correct the damage you have done as much as possible. I look forward to being witness to that process out of Francis.

In their OWN country?

What a hypocrite he is.

Kim Davis and the long history of this pope and this church actively opposing LGBTQ equality is nonsense.

is what he says when he excuses himself to go to the bathroom.

Surely it was a meeting of, while not "great minds" at least "like minds"?

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]but that is not really important because I didn't say anything about why they fired him or if they were justified in doing so or not.

What I said, was that if they regretted the meeting with Davis they could prove it by hiring him back. It would be a magnanimous gesture which could help heal this particular wound.




Edit: The article says he was fired because of the time of his coming out. Not for being gay or for breaking his vow of celibacy...though I don't think anyone can be faulted for thinking that those were major considerations for his being removed from his job[/font]

Do you really know active Roman Catholic priests who are in an open relationship?

The only provision for that is the Ordinariate established for Married Episcopal priests who join the RCC.

http://ordinariate.net/

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]All I said, was that if they regretted it then they could prove it by doing something like hiring him back.

Further, the article specifically says he was fired solely for the time of his coming out...though Like I said in my edit I wouldn't blame anyone if they thought his orientation or his relationship were major (or even deciding) factors as well.

Besides it not like we haven't had priests who had illicit relationships and kept their jobs, or even a few popes...[/font]

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]That why I don't give credence to those who say my former church will never change, and why I will continue pushing them to do so.

I might not believe anymore, but it is still the church of my family and my heritage.

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The RCC actively opposed lgbtq equality. The RCC fights in our courts for religious exemptions for their non-religious institutions. The pope clearly stated his support for government officials to refuse to obey the laws. The pope has clearly stated his opposition to marriage equality.