I woke up this morning and said to myself, “Oh ye of little faith.” I disagree with George Weigel in the sense that he chose to respond to the New York Times (which I did not bother to read), and I was responding to the actual report. But right now, it is just a preliminary committee report.

I was asked to comment and said this, as a marker for something more thoughtful (I get thoughtful in stages; it takes time):

Welcoming gay people to church is a good thing. Publicly suggesting, as so many read the Synod report as doing, you would like to keep that doctrine off in the corner where it will do no harm, is not. With all due respect, I do not think the key problem Catholics today face is that we have a hard time seeing the goodness and beauty in sinful relationships. A lot of us married folks and unmarried alike see it all too clearly I’m afraid and need all the help our Church leaders can give in choosing to live up to the teachings of Christ.