Dolan: White House is "strangling" Catholic church

[caseymoz]

51. They can't run their operations solely with clergy.

They don't have near the numbers anymore.

My extremely Catholic father says they'll just close down their hospitals and universities.

I said if they do, it'll just bring the Catholic Church another step closer to irrelevance.

Everyone my Dad knows in the church though would be his age. There has been a sizable shift in this country, indicated by the fact that teen pregnancies are falling apparently due to contraceptive use. That's not just the next generation of voters, it's been happening for a decade (since the Internet). Add to that the Church wounded itself badly with the ongoing, never-ending, child-abuse scandals, and like the Komen foundation, the Catholic Church is cracked if they think they're going to win this.