Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups

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71. People, especially the younger people will be the deciding element.

The bishops' position only represents one based on a combination of ignorance and inability to change as the vainly struggle to retain what power they yet weild over a diminishing congregation. Their teachings and intransigence will be found by younger people as being wholly irrelevant to their needs and life styles and totally ignored. This is the process that the Catholic Church has experienced throughout Europe and Central and South America where only a generation ago they were able to enslave people with threats of eternal damnation.

It is unfortunate that so many Catholics are unaware of the vast opportunity that John XXIII provided for the church to become a dynamic force that could assist in creating solutions that confront a increasingly technological civilization. He was a dramatic change from the the previous popes who the average Catholic regarded as some superhuman potentate with supernatural authority. Even the bishops were regarded with awe with local pastors running their parishes as personal fiefs.

If they think that they can return to those days, they only reveal just how out of touch they are with the reality of the situation.