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I can see the Church becoming irrelevant if it adopts the liberal wish list: gay clergy, women priests, sex at any price ethic, abortion on demand, euthanasia and a non-judmental theology. The same type of changes already adopted by liberal Christian denominations around the world. Truly, the enemies of the Catholic Church would like nothing better than to see it rendered impotent as a moral force in world affairs.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

As the cardinals in Rome sit in deliberation to determine who will be the next Pope, critics have expressed doubt that the Catholic Church will be able to remain a relevant institution. If these critics doubt the future of the Church it must be because they consider it at the present time to be a failing institution. As the head of this institution, they must also consider the office of the Pope to be a hoary relic from the past, an anachronism that has no influence and is of no importance in the modern World.

Silly article. And I am certain that the author(s) must be some sort of liberal weenie based on either the US or Western Europe.

If the author(s) was/were to be more objective, they would realize that most Catholics are in the Developing world. That they are by far conservative, and want the Catholic church to remain conservative.

The author(s) would also realize that in West Catholicism has been facing a huge decline, while the inverse has been occuring in the developing world.

The Catholic church is an extremely relevant institution. This might not be the case in Massachusetts (where John Kerry is quite adept at giving lip service), and it might not be the case in France and most of W.Europe (where Catholicism is as good as dead in all but name and buildings), but in the developing world it is exceedingly relevant. And that is where most of the world's Catholics are. And that is where virtually all of the growth is occuring.

Just because the author(s) does not feel that the Catholic church is relevant does not mean it is not. It just shows that the author is quite myopic.

And no ....I am not Catholic. I'm just fed up with people (like this author, and the nameless 'critics' he uses to base him claims on) writing hit pieces that are just so skewed it is ludicrous. Now let me go to bed before i am ensnared by another thread (FR should be classified as a drug).