While Bryan Cross ducks the question about whether his communion is more faithful now compared to 1960, the Archbishop of Philadelphia has apparently taken a stab. The questionnaire that the Vatican has prepared to acquire input from the laity on marriage and sexual relations has already gone public in Philadelphia and it includes the following estimate:
Challenges to the Gospel today include widespread cohabitation, same sex unions, the adoption of children by people in a same sex union, the marriage of people of varying religious affiliations, single parent families, polygamy, a disregard for the equality and dignity of spouses, a weakened sense of the permanence of marriage, a feminism hostile to the Church, a reformulation of the concept of the family, the negative impact of the media and legislation on the meaning of Christian marriage and family, and the increase in surrogate motherhood. Within the Church, faith in the sacramentality of marriage and the healing power of the Sacrament of Penance has declined.
Old Life 
Old Irish culture brawler concurs here: http://www.vdare.com/articles/papal-neutrality-in-the-culture-war
What, are there no categories for the whine and brie poseurs and sophisticated philosophical punters amongst the faithful?
Pat must be having an off day.
Either that or the Vatican forgot to recharge the papal perspicuity charism. IOW infalliblity does not presume either impeccability or deliverance from incompetence.
Which is good, because we wuz wurried.
Now if we can just fine dem apostolik bones.
“I say Jupiter, which eye of the skull did you thread the gold bug and string through?”
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Challenges to the Gospel today include widespread cohabitation, same sex unions, the adoption of children by people in a same sex union, the marriage of people of varying religious affiliations, single parent families, polygamy, a disregard for the equality and dignity of spouses, a weakened sense of the permanence of marriage, a feminism hostile to the Church, a reformulation of the concept of the family, the negative impact of the media and legislation on the meaning of Christian marriage and family, and the increase in surrogate motherhood. Within the Church, faith in the sacramentality of marriage and the healing power of the Sacrament of Penance has declined.
Two Kingdoms: whatever.
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Tom, what are you doing for the cause?
Whatever indeed.
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Why ask if the RCC is as faithful now as it was in 1960?
Why not set the date to apostolic times before all the “development” had taken place?
If the RCC of even pre-1960 was “less faithful” than it was in 60 AD, then why bother with the “development”?
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