The current Pope is a Jesuit -- from Argentina. But a Jesuit. That has made a significant difference in breaking down the Roman Curia and muscling the "old guard" corruption out of Vatican policy, Vatican politics, Vatican corruption. Pope Francis has administered this "modern Church" better than anyone thought possible-- yet the many, many problems of the Church remain.
The Catholic Church has polarized itself around one issue -- for different fragments of the Church that issue may be different: the rights of women in the Church, birth control as sin (procreation is the only goal of marriage), abortion (it is what I say it is when I say it is). These three issues alone have bifurcated the Church for centuries and continue to do so. Now we have added sexual controversies:
the pedophilia of the Catholic clergy, transgenders as humans, bisexuals/gays/etc. as willful sinners or gender anomalies. These three additional problems go confusedly unsolved by the Church and its thinkers. Once again the Church is polarized by sex!
The Catholic Church cannot truly be "my" Church (and here I speak not for just myself but millions of others) until it really thinks these problem areas through and rethinks the meaning of sin, free will, sex and normalcy, and the modern world. The Church does not ever have to adapt and adjust to a secular world -- but it at least needs to consider its own inertia on all the issues that affects and devalues the Church itself.
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