I'd tend to agree, frogprince. As I said, my religious life has little to do with doctrine or regulations. "Authority" has very little relevance to me - same goes with "infallibility."

Amos, in general, I think the nuns don't care at all about birth control [no wisecracks, please]. I'm really surprised that birth control arose as an issue in recent months. In general, you won't hear anything about birth control in Catholic churches - despite the official policy. That's the way things work in the Catholic Church - if there's an official policy that's stupid, nobody talks about it; and then it disappears from the books a hundred years later and people say, "we never taught that." Seems like a strange thing to do, but it saves the effort of arguing with those who will mindlessly fight to preserve anything that once was official policy.


-Joe-