Posted on August 3 at 3:59 p.m.

"And along comes this group, which claims to speak on behalf of the Church and "the Spirit", yet it openly encourages division and disfellowship from our local bishop, it celebrates sexual perversion and sexual acts outside of matrimony, it preaches New Age practices that are an offense to God, and it mocks our sacraments and the authority of our local church. We aren't dumb. We know this smells foul, and it is most certainly not the fruit of the Spirit. We reject this poison. We know what the Second Vatican Council taught. We've read and studied its documents. We know that the Second Vatican Council did not call for this profanity."

I couldn't agree with you more 'polycarp'. Thank you for putting it so well. Roman Catholics look to the Holy Father, the vicar of Christ on Earth for direction as well as church history and scripture. As Roman Catholics we object to their use of that term and their assumption that this is what the Spirit calls for. This is a manifestation of the evil of moral relativism and must be recognized as such.

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Posted on July 27 at 5:34 a.m.

Where is the balance in this article? The Santa Barbara Independent makes no attempt to contact representatives of the real Roman Catholic Church in California for a statement. These people are NOT ordaining women in the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. They have made themselves a splinter group and that is exactly what excommunication is -- they have chosen to set themselves apart from the Church -- it is something they have done to themselves. A perfect example of what Pope Benedict XVI calls moral relativism -- people making up the rules to suit themselves. It's all about 'me'. Let's be clear: they are not Roman Catholic priests.

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