I have every respect for Joe's attitude to his religion, which seems to me exemplary for his circustances ~~ those, I reiterate & will go on doing so until it sinks in, of an urban sophisticate resident of middle-class California in the 2nd decade of C21, with such access to information as to the worldwide state of his Church as may be afforded by, e.g. as he has enumerated, conversations with priests from the urban and more accessible areas of some African countries.

I continue nevertheless to consider him unwarrantably cocksure as to the wider application of the circumstances and attitudes he adumbrates to the Church in more remote, less prosperous, parts of the world: in Africa, Asia, S America, and even in parts of California itself ~~ would he take an oath that there is not a priest in S Central LA who receives the sort of unquestioning attention from his flock to traditional teaching of the kind so much deplored above by non-Catholics, by those actively hostile to Catholicism, as well as by Joe & his like, the informed & intelligent within the Church?

And if so, could he demonstrate how, please?

~M~