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Furthermore, there is a desperate priest shortage that may very well be leading would be Catholics into the welcoming arms of evangelicals in places like Latin America. In Africa, some nuns are secretly advocating condom use because of the AIDS crisis.

So maybe it isn't so much the relevance of Catholicism that is being questioned, but perhaps the relevance of the Vatican. I'm curious though, whether our resident Catholics feel that the Vatican IS the Catholic Church, or vice-versa.