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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 11:10 AM May 2017

'The Catholic Church has at most 10 years to adapt'

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-catholic-church-has-at-most-10-years-to-adapt-1.3084834

The Catholic Church, as well as everyone else, must understand that the world was hit by a cultural tsunami in the 20th century. We must humbly begin to pick up the pieces and put them back together again.

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Discovery of the world of the unconscious; full acknowledgement and acceptance of the dimension of femininity, both inside and outside of ourselves, with all this implies in terms of gender balance and sexual diversity; recognition of the immensity of scientific discovery; and humble apprenticeship in a laboratory of ever-expanding technology; these are some of the characteristics required for access, capability and survival in the new world we have inherited.

It is as if our world were precariously poised, metaphorically speaking, on two tectonic plates as far as socio-political awareness is concerned. On the one hand you have the more advanced and sophisticated cultures, such as many of us in the so-called “first world” enjoy, where democracy has become the accepted idiom.

Then you have the Catholic Church, and many others who, in certain respects, have not yet moved out of the nineteenth century.
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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
1. Heck, at least the Catholic Church is firmly in the 19th Century.
Tue May 16, 2017, 11:15 AM
May 2017

Fundamentalist Islam and Fundamentalist Judaism are firmly rooted in the 6th century CE and the 500th or so century BCE respectively. Throw in Fundamentalist Christianity, and all three are far more impervious to the modern world than is Catholicism.

Not to mention that all hold women as second class citizens. Maybe even lower class than that.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
6. Not a whole lot, but there was the Spanish Inquisition (technically, they were 15th c.).
Tue May 16, 2017, 12:53 PM
May 2017

But nobody expects them.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
5. Oddly enough in at least one way they were more enlightened and progressive in the 19th century...
Tue May 16, 2017, 12:39 PM
May 2017

than they are now. (Re: "quickening" and abortion.)

But yeah, the signs are all there. This piece is likely to upset the bigots like Bill Donohue though.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
3. I didn't know you believed in prophets, trotsky.
Tue May 16, 2017, 12:02 PM
May 2017

You should learn the difference between prophecy and wishful thinking.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
8. Receeding relevance, but as an entity they can coast on their wealth until the heat death of the uni
Tue May 16, 2017, 02:00 PM
May 2017

verse.

But I will be thankful of the sunset of their political influence.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
10. The corrupt old bigots know their money is the most important thing.
Wed May 17, 2017, 09:02 AM
May 2017

Why do you think they're fighting sex abuse victims in court to avoid paying them?

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