I agree with you, Joe, as I have frequently remarked on various threads, that the use of the designation 'Guest' with no further identification required, is evasive & potentially confusing; it used until recently not to be permitted and posts so headed were liable to be deleted, and I don't know why the rule was dropped, and I wish it could be restored.

But I still don't see that the practice deprives the contents of a post of credibility, which was what you appeared to be saying.

Re the post under consideration: it went back some way in history, to a point where I think the Vatican held more sway than it does now. Even if wrong about this, I do not think the Vatican should remain silent about evident abuses within your Church. IMO the institution, and the Church itself, are deprived of cred if the Pope does not even express an opinion on abuses which bring the Body of the faith into widespread public disrepute. I appreciate that there is not the least reason why the Vatican should care for the opinion as to its image of an atheistic outsider like me: but my point seems to me a valid one nonetheless.

~M~