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But when people in the pews challenge man-made doctrine, the men in miters are all too quick to remind us that our lack of advanced degrees from the Pontifical Gregorian University might leave us less than qualified to challenge the Holy See on any Catholic matter.

Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011

But when people in the pews challenge man-made doctrine, the men in miters are all too quick to remind us that our lack of advanced degrees from the Pontifical Gregorian University might leave us less than qualified to challenge the Holy See on any Catholic matter.

Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011

But when people in the pews challenge man-made doctrine, the men in miters are all too quick to remind us that our lack of advanced degrees from the Pontifical Gregorian University might leave us less than qualified to challenge the Holy See on any Catholic matter.

Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011

And across Europe, a woman irons miters in Spain for bishops to wear in World Youth Day activities, a grape picker empties a basket of white grapes in France and a woman relaxes on a beach in England.

Photos of the Day 2011

He announced his intention to trust God -- and not a cabal of men in miters and lace -- to decide whether he was worthy to receive Holy Communion.

Michele Somerville: Andrew Cuomo's Gift For The Feast Of The Epiphany Michele Somerville 2011

But when people in the pews challenge man-made doctrine, the men in miters are all too quick to remind us that our lack of advanced degrees from the Pontifical Gregorian University might leave us less than qualified to challenge the Holy See on any Catholic matter.

Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011

He announced his intention to trust God -- and not a cabal of men in miters and lace -- to decide whether he was worthy to receive Holy Communion.

Michele Somerville: Andrew Cuomo's Gift For The Feast Of The Epiphany Michele Somerville 2011

Nor is it their costumes — the miters and capes — though these vanities do serve as reminders of the great distance between the men with power and the people without.

A Woman’s Place Is In The Church 2010

It tends to fly at us from two opposing directions: from Catholics who accept Church teaching and therefore view homosexuality is a disorder, and from those who believe gay people who stay in a church ruled by self-hating homosexuals in miters are sexual identity traitors.

Michele Somerville: Gay Catholic Ministry and Straight Pride 2010

In the end of January, when Rome bolstered these four schismatic miters, without taking into consideration their rejection of the renewal of the last Council, of the recognition of religious liberty, of ecumenism, of opening up to the world, and so forth, I have ceased naming the bishop of Rome in the eucharistic prayer. posted by New Catholic at 5:53 PM

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