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--- O filho de Albuquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George , > > You said > > The issue is 95%+ of Popes, Cardinals, Saints are > European. No > equality for non-Europeans. In > addition, the Papal election is a MALE exercise > where over 50% of the > Catholic population are > excluded from the highest honors of the Church by > virtue of being > women. Not to mention women > cannot be priests, bishops, etc. An addendum to Dominic's reply. I just finished reading an article at http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/columns/guests/edwardtoakes/reconcilingjudas.asp which had the following: ------------------------------- Once upon a time, a poor widow sends her young son Hans into the village to fetch a simple meal, and along the way into town he discovers a lump of gold. Thrilled, he heads back home to show his mother his amazing good luck. But no sooner has he started back than he meets a knight who persuades him to exchange the gold for the knight’s steed. “The better for plowing!” the knight assures the boy. Further down the way, a farmer explains that the widow can’t eat a horse, so why not exchange the horse for the farmer’s cow? After making this seemingly reasonable bargain, the boy continues home but then meets up with a neighbor carrying a goose under his arm. Of course the widow wants a meal today, says the neighbor, so why not exchange cow for goose? Done. Finally, nearly home, he meets up with a boy who tells him that if he exchanges the goose for a whetstone he can keep his knife sharpened for slaughtering any number of geese in the future. Done again. But when he gets home he notices the clumsy stone in his pocket and, puzzled at its presence, throws it away before crossing the threshold of his home, none the sadder and certainly none the wiser. Anyone who has followed the path taken by Protestant theology in the past two centuries, and by Catholic theology in the past four decades, already knows the point of this story: All the costume changes in the world won’t matter if the messenger has squandered his treasure by altering his message to suit the convenience of the audience. -------------------------------- I hope you now understand the Catholic Church's stance. You don't want to make your faith worthless, do you? Don't get swayed by today's feminist mmovement, which is going to far to the other extreme, excluding men from their own clubs and gyms (No peeping Toms, is their favourite advert); whereas all men's clubs have been forced to open their doors to women by equal-opportunity legislation, at least here in Aussie land. Cheers, Gabriel. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com