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Looks like the top Catholic Bishop in England has put his stamp of approval on gay unions<\/a>.\u00a0 I know, he draws the line at marriage.\u00a0 For now.\u00a0 That\u2019s about where most left leaning Protestant denominations were a decade ago or so.\u00a0 I can\u2019t help but notice that there is a trend among some Catholic clergy to more or less fall into lockstep with post-modern socialist left leaning European intelligentsia and cultural elites.\u00a0 Not that everyone is, but there is just the whiff.\u00a0 Take away abortion and \u2018life\u2019 issues, and it\u2019s getting harder and harder to separate a growing number of bishops and other leaders from their more secular European counterparts.\u00a0 Don\u2019t know what it means, other than the Church has been known to follow the course of human events in the past (usually to disastrous results that later require unending apologies and repentance).\u00a0 We\u2019ll see how this turns out, and just how much of a trend it happens to be. For now, it looks as though the good Bishop of merry old England is outside of the Vatican fold on this.\u00a0 Time will tell if he is a fluke, or if there are growing numbers of Church leaders who want to make the Catholic Church just like Protestantism, only slower.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"