I had a quick look at attitudes to Catholic strictures on contraception in an idle moment this afternoon (sitting in the sun, a rare opportunity this rotten summer, with me iPad). Well, the attitude of the church hierarchy is, as we know, unbending. But nearly every Catholic woman in the US in the modern era has used contraception. Most of them think that it makes them sinful, but onward they go. The Church has lost its grip, and a bloody good thing too. I need a lot of convincing that the poor in central and South America, and in many African nations, have made such progress. The Church still has a cast iron grip in so many places but I don't hear your protests. It's all very well quietly demurring, Joe, but quietly demurring tends to get nobody anywhere.