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This is getting away from your thread a bit. However, as far as my religion is concerned I feel that Catholicism as a monolithic structure is disappearing. Once a person who differed with the church quietly stole away. Now they refuse to abandon their communion with God. From a timid rebellion has grown a courageous confrontation.
This is not merely the roar of a few. It is the fruit of a studious examination of the foundations of faith. Faith has passed from the passive and complete acceptance of a body of truths to the honest search for total commitment.
As I wrote in an earlier post, the world has become meaning-centered, and the individual measures the traditional truths in terms of personal value. The individual refuses to accept irrelevant sermons, a sterile liturgy, a passe and speculative theology which explores publicly dry and distant formulas, a law which does not explain its own origins. The individual demands a priest who reaches him in honest dialogue. The individual will not be bullied by an authoritarian demand for the observance of parish boundaries, nor by moralizing which ignores the true and complex context of modern life.
Today we have a more open view of mixed marriages, a more understanding discussion of the birth-control problem and the dilemma of Catholic education. The individual has recognised the human face of the Church which has been forced to change its expression or die.
This has given the individual the courage to hope and push for greater changes still.