you seem to be disregarding observation. I don't need to know about the internal structures and politics of the catholic church to see that is wrong, any more than I need to contract full-blown smallpox to know that it's fatal.
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you do need to know when something is the actual teachings of the church and when its the actions of a group within catholism who have voice due to who is Pope, this is very much the later, and even the Pope isn't daft enough to make this Papal law which tells you everything, they want to do this by the side door.

This is not what the Church teaches in relation to homsexuality so its very easy for Catholics like myself to voice our dismay at how certain people including this Pope are behaving in relation to this issue. This is not a canon law or Catholic dogma, this is stupid and offensive idea that causes anger, and I disagree Madame_Zora, its actually actions like this that make people voice their opinion, unfortunatly it will not be given the press attention when people do so, but at a local level I'm sure, I and alot of people will tell their priest how they feel about this and alot of them will feel the same way.