Oh, Lee,

I am so sorry to hear and read about the Cardinal Pell story, I had no idea. And then to be moved into a new job in the Vatican, that is just so disappointing. I had hoped for so much more from Pope Francis.

This spring I started looking around for a new religious practice/service that would work, and although I enjoyed a Quaker meeting, it simply was not Catholicism. I feel so lost without my old love for the Church. And then it hit me, all those ostracized mothers and indigenous and abused children--not only was the abuse terrible, but it was all wrapped up with their religious faith and practice. For some reason that made me feel even worse, that children endured abuse and then probably could not even stomach the idea of the church anymore, so then you don't even have a religion to fall back on? I'm explaining it poorly but it felt even more like the Church destroyed so many bodies and minds physically and then also took away their spirit. What a terrible, terrible thing.

Your way of living the love without dealing with the actual organization and its politics is probably the way I will have to go. I can't believe it's come to this.

Thank you for responding and thank you for being you.