Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
Let Catholics build their own churches and works.
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. It's a continual hokey-pokey.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.