Another day, another Times article, they were talking about the Catholic church being troubled by “the creeping secularisation of Europe”. They were using Spain as an example, where many people claim to belong the church but the majority don’t go. The blame for a large part of the decline seems to be laid with the changing role of women, that women are more equal and have much more real power now.
Their religion seems to be partly sustained by keeping women relatively powerless, and this sounds like the same story as the Anglican church during Women’s Lib in the 60’s. You can’t sustain a religion by putting half of the human race into relative servitude, a spiritual path should include everyone as equals, no exceptions.
Times change, the Catholic Church is in the difficult position of all dogmatic religions. Change is very difficult, look at the recent problems in Anglicanism for example. I for one doubt that it will survive in it’s current form in the long term. We’re seeing unprecedented change, that will require a level of change that I don’t think the Vatican can make.
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