(February 26, 2013 at 10:14 am)Gabriel Syme Wrote: Its all just media smoke and mirrors - they know the Church will not change ('modernise' is an erronous term) and are only suggesting it might, so they can then later attack it on grounds that it didnt.
It is cheap, lazy journalism and - while that usually annoys me - we Catholics do allow outselves a chuckle on occasions like these.
You have confused cause and effect. The media doesn't conjur up the idea of liberal Catholicism in an effort to manufacture controversy; it reports and opines on the existing conflict between liberal and conservative Catholics.