Why do newspapers and TV news readers think the US matters in things Catholic? Look at the size of the Catholic Church worldwide. Fewer Westerners and more Third Worlders attend services, even personally identify with a religion, and yet US news people seem to think that what they say matters.
Pope Benedict resigns, and American natterwaulers go into “Do this!” mode.
The New York Times: “The resignation sets up a struggle between the staunchest conservatives, in Benedict’s mold . . . and those who believe that the church can broaden its appeal in small but significant ways, like allowing divorced Catholics who remarry without an annulment to receive communion or loosening restrictions on condom use in an effort to prevent AIDS.”
Who said so? Why, the NYT writer.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_clueless_media_iffMrxsFiaRnRykuYhNY4K
(Link from maggiesfarm.)
As the Post writer says: “It never seems to occur to the critics that the church’s explosive growth outside Europe and North America is precisely due to the steadfastness of its moral teachings — and that its decline in the West is a result of a loss of faith in those very principles among intellectuals. You see the same decline in Reform Judaism and liberal Protestantism.”
(Most media persons consider themselves relevant. Not so. Not so, not so, especially in things they are incapable of understanding. Like religion.)
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