http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/opinion/10kristof.html
“Unless the Vatican reconnects with ordinary people here in the Catholic heartland … the Vatican’s obstinacy may yet kindle a Re-Reformation.” Huh? So, to keep up numbers, Catholic bigwigs should promulgate ideas popular with the populace rather than those that are (so they believe) right or the truth? Isn’t this like saying that accepting Jesus as the Messiah would be a good move for Jews? I suspect that whether the Catholic church endures as a viable institution is much less of a concern to the Pope than (and here’s my caveat again: what he sees as) doing God’s will.