Joe said there are a lot of compassionate people in the Catholic Church. What some people seem to have missed is that this vote proves it. It is highly significant that it was the votes of the general population in favour of change we are talking about here, many of whom are practicing Catholics. It is high time a certain proportion of both the clergy and the church bashers got over the naive view that everyone who is Catholic is the same.

This was the whole population voting. So no one can ever claim such changes are about pressure groups in Westminster or other governing bodies overriding the public opinion again. And that's why I think the caption of the thread - all changes, changes utterly - is appropriate.