What scares me is that I truly believe that economics are driving them to the Left.
The average active Catholic who attends Mass regularly and financially supports his Church is over 50. Millenials have pretty much stopped going. For every baptism there are ten funerals.
The panic over shrinking collections is palpable.
I have seen some panicky things in my Church’s bulletin about the need to lure young people back to the Church. And while I don’t disagree, there is a right way and a wrong way to do that.
My fear is that they are going to choose the wrong way. Like caving to the Millenial belief that not giving gays everything they demand is analogous to bullying.
The further left the church lurches and the more it states that it offers no universal truths and the ephemeral politics of the moment drive it, the fewer people see the point in being part of it. Go figure.
My parents are religious, however, we don’t go to church because we are busy. As the bible states: A church is 2 or more people together.
Testem benevolentiae nostrae correctly identified where the Church in the US was headed and Vatican II was the American Church triumphantly going public with the fact that they didn't give a damn what Pope Leo XIII said or about how wrong they were and hadn't given a damn for a long time.
The fact of the matter is that it's the same diabolic spirit that's infected everything else in our nation.