[Loyalist]

John Paul II might have appointed a fair number of relatively good Cardinals in his time, but he's also appointed some fairly liberal ones too.

I suspect that his successor will be one of the more liberal Cardinals, and that we will see things coming out of Rome that will make Vatican II look like a stroll through the Elysian Fields.

[american colleen]

Loyalist, I pray you are wrong because I'll have to start going back to the predictions of some of the saints.

This is like living through eternity each day -- you really think it'll get worse?

[ninenot]

Regardless if his successor is 'liberal' or otherwise, doctrine and dogma will NOT change. Female "priests" will NOT be authorized--that's a dogmatic matter related to the 'in persona Christi' Who was a male.

Marriage may be up for grabs, but I don't think that's something which will be easily changed--and actually, the "vocations crisis" is confined almost exclusively to the West...