Catholics caught between bishops, Obama’s birth control mandate

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18. "liberal" US Bishops, in agreement with 80-99% of US Catholics

hardly a "drop in the bucket" more like a strike to the gonads!

If the Catholic faith cannot continue to sustain financially, and the US Catholic membership contributes more millions of dollars or Euros than any other nation. Just saying, week after week, another few thousand American and Canadian and other Catholics worldwide don't show up on Sunday to put their $5 or $10 in the collection plate.

Eventually, as we are seeing, churches go up for sale, are shut down, fewer people show up. In the USA, the saving grace for the church has been the religious schools, the thousands of places where dissatisfied parents send their children to nuns and other underpaid women, (mostly) who attempt to educate the kids.

But when the church can't pay the heating bills at the schools, when the lay teachers don't take those underpaid jobs, when the priests leave, when the nuns fail to show up. The Cancer of a religion locked in the past, where the only legitimate way of avoidance of pregnancy is the rhythm method, where the concept of sexual relations for the sheer human pleasure of the sex is proscribed unless it is for procreative purposes, where followers of the faith simply cannot reconcile any longer such Spartan regulations upon their human intimacy, all because modern methods of contraception are forbidden, then we see a church in her own peril, a church no longer able to sustain her own membership, a church trying to be living in a distant past, before simple aspects modern science.

I don't think we need to beat up upon people so locked in their own past. They find out, sooner or later, that they were in error, just as slave-owners found a difficult and tormenting lesson about their previous beliefs. Concepts of equality and modern living do feel painful when people previously had believed otherwise and find it hard to adapt. It can be unfortunate, but some people refuse to accept change, and become victims of such rigidity.