ISRAEL
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Prof. Phyllis Chesler, 17/03/17

Many Catholics disagree with Vatican policies. Some no longer follow tradition. Many such Catholics still enter churches at times of birth, baptism, marriage, and death. Some Catholics take confession–but continue sinning. Many Catholics celebrate only the major holidays–and many Catholics are either life-long and devoted members of the flock or return to the faithful fold after a crisis or revelation.

Oddly enough, disaffected Catholics–those who mock priestly hypocrisy; expose sexual abuse scandals with relish; and strongly oppose the Church’s stand on many issues, including birth control, abortion, gay rights, divorce, and the Latin liturgy–nevertheless, do not launch full-scale, decades-long, global campaigns against the Vatican and the democratically elected Pope.

Catholics do not call for a boycott of the Vatican nor do they use the UN as a venue to de-legitimize or defame it among the nations. They do not infiltrate the Vatican…