tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5079079905714521883..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Offshoring politics, ideology, Christianity? The example of GAFCONBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-14101404677398903532013-07-28T16:39:27.273+01:002013-07-28T16:39:27.273+01:00@SDR - There is a great deal of inertia in large a...@SDR - There is a great deal of inertia in large and complex social systems, so effects are delayed in relation to causes - and the Roman Catholic church is indeed dying astonishingly fast. Which is tragic. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-29332004696108425582013-07-28T13:31:18.188+01:002013-07-28T13:31:18.188+01:00"The problem is that 'Rome' (i.e. the..."The problem is that 'Rome' (i.e. the senior Catholic hierarchy) is part of the problem, not part of the solution."<br /><br />In fact, no. Senior hierarchy is part of the problem in roughly the same proportion that local clergy and all Catholic people are: all of us are sinners and a majority is not interested to convert and be faithful to the Commandments. And this certainly does not apply to the Popes of the last 150 years. If what you are pretending were true, the Church would have died a long time ago, and all the rest of 'Christianity' would not even exist.Sylvie D. Rousseauhttp://sylvietheolog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com