[Lou L]

Letting masses of people in will make us all poor.

I really wonder sometimes, if the Church would rather have us as we were in the Dark Ages: ignorant, sickly and destitute...dependent upon kings for our measly sustinence, and dependent upon popes for our spritual enlightenment.

Think about it--the Church has lost the power it used to have, and now is just seen as the organization around a political voting bloc.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I really wonder sometimes, if the Church would rather have us as we were in the Dark Ages: ignorant, sickly and destitute...dependent upon kings for our measly sustinence, and dependent upon popes for our spritual enlightenment.

According to my late uncle, who was a non-Communist Jesuit, the answer is yes. In his view the Church leadership had never come to grips with the fact that the flock today is literate, highly educated, and able to read the Bible for themselves. They no longer needed men in black robes and pointy red hats to dole out the interpretation to them.

I'm sure most of them would be more comfortable returning to the Dark Ages.