Hi Roland, We always like to believe that *our* own beliefs are "liberal" and those of someone else are "conservative". Catholicism has (like other religions too, and even global politics) seen an intense conservative revolution take control since the past two or three decades. Of course, things were forced to move in a different direction for a brief while in the 1960s. But that is history.
The bulk of today's Catholics are poor, and have an unrepresentative leadership. Things could change in Goa, because the elites don't see religion as a lever of control, at least in Catholicism. It is little consolation that some other religions are more conservative and orthodox. Besides, there is an attempt to show people-unlike-us to be somehow worse off though adverse comparisons. FN On 23 September 2012 19:47, Roland Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > The Catholic Church will have nothing to say about it. > In worldly terms, the Catholic Church is a liberal entity. The Presbyterian > Church is not. The best comparison is between an Obama and a Romney who both > by the way are Christians. > The Catholic Church struggles between a conservative doctrine espoused by > the likes of the current Pope and the practical living of much of its > followers who believe that their Church is about 200 years behind the times. > This is what an Italian Catholic Cardinal said in a newspaper interview just > before he died and he couldn't have said it any better.
