General Discussion

And human beings have an infinite capacity to surprise and disappoint one another.

But the institutional structure of this particular institution has calcified for millennia around the primary mission of sustaining its own power and existence, which tends to handicap the better-intentioned humans involved.

I am encouraged by the Catholic Church's steady institutional move away from the extremes of authoritarian religious and theological structure that are becoming ever more prevalent in other religious groups.

It's almost as though those millennia of experience have taught some of them the inherent problems in a totalitarian approach to theological conformity in respect to the health of an institution that needs to endure over generations of evolving human thought, technology, and political advancement.

We shall see...

speculatively,
Bright