[Dutchboy88]

"The Catholic Church hasn't said it has a problem."

"CARA is a non-profit research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission: to increase the Catholic Church's self understanding; to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers; and to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism"

Well, confuse me! Here I thought the Catholic Outer Space Research Institute for Spaghetti Concepts actually was connected to Rome...but, no, it is just intended to "...increase the Catholic Church's SELF UNDERSTANDING..." It appears some of that is needed.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's CARA, Dutchboy. A separately-incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit consisting of Georgetown statisticians and number-crunchers, not under the formal control even of Georgetown, nor of the Archdiocese of Washington DC, nor of the Catholic Church in the USA, nor of Rome.

It's an academic research group which speculated in 1964 that the Catholic Church "ought to" think about how to operate in outer space.

Thanks for your vigorous, up-to-date analysis of this hot news item.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Sorry, my dumb error. It was not a 1964 post: it's just "called" 1964, and I was further misled by the Ray Bradbury illustration, which looks pre-Star Trek.

However, what I wrote otherwise still stands. CARA =/= "The Catholic Church".