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...part of the Catechism is completely sacrosanct and inviolate? No, but the overhaul that some wish to inflict upon the Church would doom it to the same fate that so many other, previously vibrant, Christian denominations have experienced; a leadership that is confident in its own righteousness and a membership that has ceased to exist. One of the things that irks people about Catholicism is its explicit appeal to be a universal arbiter of right and wrong, yet this is also what gives it its enduring strength. Catholicism has seen the rise of innumerable perversions of its doctrine only...
...church that does not doubt its teachings because of their declining popularity. Churches that are not demanding, either philosophically or materially, do not do well in terms of attracting or retaining members. As Michael Barone pointed out recently in Time magazine, the denominations that are growing or maintaining their membership, Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism, and Mormonism, are exceedingly demanding of their members, while the denominations that ask little of their believers and are (rightly or wrongly) seen to blow with the societal windslike Episcopalism, Methodism, and Presbyterianismhave been declining precipitously...
...Volvo-driving, pro-choice, gay-marriage-supporting urban dweller, I admit to an inner conflict when it comes to guns. I grew up surrounded by firearms and the boys who loved them. My father is a bona fide hunting nut who threatened to buy my son a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association for his first birthday. I myself have mowed down a variety of defenseless woodland creatures. I used to be a decent shot with a pistol, and once during the Clinton years, I spearheaded an outing of lefty political scribes for a round of skeet shooting...
...Academy’s broad membership, according to the AAAS website, enables “a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research...
Members are assigned numbers in order to preserve anonymity, but personal meetings are encouraged. If a member becomes interested in pursuing a relationship further, the six-month membership can be put on hold, so that members needn’t pay for time spent out of the program, according to the website...