A bishop's answer: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8447 In a lengthy interview with the Sacramento News & Review, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento discusses women's ordination, contraception, homoesexuality, the abuse scandal, and other issues. Asked a more general question-- "How would [the unchurched] benefit if they joined your faith and attended your services?"-- he replied: I believe that participating in a faith community, and in the charitable works of a faith community, helps us to really discover our own humanity. In our society, we place a great deal of value on freedom. And the Church understands freedom as going out of one's self toward God and toward others.
Whether that's the divine other or "God"—or whether that experience is mediated by our reaching out to one of our brothers or sisters in need
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Too much of what they want to hear, and not enough of what the Truth really is. A missed opportunity and a very disappointing answer from a Bishop that seems orthodox but shows weakness.
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