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Originally Posted by El Blanco
I am not about to think that an institution that holds influence over 1 billion people is irrelevent.
It is not the total juggernaut it once was, but the Catholic Church is still tremendously powerful.
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And besides, read the very beginning of Buchanan's article:
"Thirty-seven years after the end of the only church council of the 20th century, the jury has come in with its verdict: Vatican II appears to have been an unrelieved disaster for Roman Catholicism."
He isn't questioning the relevance of the Church, he's questioning Vatican II. So this doesn't really substantiate what Sspad said, cuz if guys like Buchanan had their way, you'd see a far less "progressive" Church than what you've seen post-Vatican II.