Well, Cardinal Law resigns, and now we’ll see if unjustified attacks on the church stop.

THere is so much confusion on what is actually going on in the church, and this is because American Catholics, on the whole, know nothing about the church, and also because we have the mistaken notion that Catholicism lends itself to democracy. It does not.

Nevertheless, the impact from Law resigning will be even more calls by concerned lay groups to change the Catholic church like we change blue laws in America--with a vote. And even if Americans know that the church isn’t a democracy, they think that it would be better if it were.

Yes, the church sex abuse scandal is abhorrent, but the fault is not a greedy, power-hungry church bureacracy. It is the spirit of the counter-culture of the 1960s, and the Left, that coopted anything good about Vatican II and turned it into the den of devils it is today. Instead of blaming those that are involved, lay groups like Catholics for a Free Choice are blaming the church as a whole.

Can anyone say apostasy?