To: arj
Most of this stuff happened in the 1970s, when the Countercultural Revolution was in full swing. Many orders of nuns were being counseled by crazy psychiatrists, many orders were decimated, most religious habits were discarded, and tens of thousands left their orders.
It had nothing to do with Catholicism as such; it was a matter of surrendering to the secular culture. Of course the bishops are much to blame for their weakness and neglect in the face of these difficulties.
That was the time of the Woodstock Nation. It infected the Catholic Church badly, but of course it affected the other Churches as well, and non-Christians probably went off the deepest end of all, and have since suffered for it in broken and disillusioned lives.
13 posted on
01/09/2003 8:27:56 AM PST by
Cicero
To: Cicero
It is a much older problem than that - you've been deluded.
59 posted on
01/09/2003 10:30:49 AM PST by
Chancellor Palpatine
(Yes, I'm a statist neocon RINO imperialist. Do you got a problem with that?)
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