(January 16, 2020 at 12:31 am)Fireball Wrote:(January 15, 2020 at 11:01 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I do not understand how anyone can take the Roman Catholic Church seriously on any issue whatsoever; the only reason that the Church has any sort of power in today's World is because it had real power in centuries past. Basically, it's an entity that has run out of gas and is simply coasting to a slow stop.
It's the physics training in me, applied to the emotions- I'll call it emotional inertia. The sooner that shit stops the better. If the participants took it on as a helper role, that would be good. But the number of "miscreants" is a large percentage, and the enablers are rife. Disgusting.
For most Catholics, it's a pro forma aspect of their lives, weddings and funerals along with some holidays, plus the occasional Mass when convenient or when emotional and/or social longing facilitates such.