The Roman Catholic Church faces a critical moment in its history not seen since the Reformation. It is a Borgia pope moment with hundreds of priests sexually abusing thousands of mostly young men. The tip of the homosexual iceberg was revealed in Pennsylvania recently. Forty-nine other state attorneys general could open investigations on priestly sexual abuse, effectively bankrupting the Church with lawsuits.

A blurb at the website reads; "Anyone who is interested in thinking about and celebrating ordained ministry; for any who have a burden for proclaiming Christ to a lost and broken world in need of healing and redemption. This conference was conceived as a place to have a conversation about what this looks like in the Anglican tradition, and to give missional, Gospel-burdened young adults a space in which to reflect on their vocation, i.e. calling."

Jesus had much to say about judgement, but you won't hear much of it from many pulpits these days. Preachers like to preach the Sermon on the Mount but steer clear of what Jesus had to say about religious leaders. He accused them of being "hypocrites" and "whited sepulchers". On one occasion he said this: "For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves."

This is a story I never thought I would be writing. This is a story no journalist should ever have to write. But now both the church press and secular media have a hold of the story, a rapidly expanding story with more twists and turns than Lombard Street in San Francisco.

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