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# 1. 7/9/09 12:18 PM by Eric - Rochester, NY
To the conservative Christians you refer to, the Catholic Church is hardly a representative example of where "the flock" is or should be. Those "right-wing" Christians you refer to as having strayed did so when Martin Luther protested the selling of indulgences.

Editor's Note: The article refers to basic Christian dogma

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# 2. 7/9/09 4:03 PM by albert 1
I wonder what the Right thinks of the Catholic Workers Movement or the Bishops that support farm labor and those who openly opposed the VietNam war. Also the churches giving sanctuary and aid to illegal immigrants.

So much history is going by the boards with effort to present it in a biased manner

I know they dont like Bishop Clark in Rochester very much.

Organized religion is far from a monolithic ultraconservative political force that some "Christians" imagine it to be.

You should have been in Rochester in 1966 when churches helped bring the Chicago Community activism to town and Conservatives were predicting doom with the use of the acronym FIGHT to represent the bootstrapping effort that had some success. I was active in a small movement at the time that supported activity in the Unitarian and Universalist Churches. .

Editor's Note: I was a Unitarian for many years; what a great church

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# 3. 7/9/09 5:28 PM by Peter Lounsbury - Homestead, FL
So you're saying that the true teaching of Christianity was for Rome to give to the poor?

Editor's Note: I believe the Pope's emphasis on the 'greater good' is nearer to Christian dogma then, say, killing abortion providers.