Jim asks: Can you7 explain why your church has taken the nosedive it has

Well, yes, Jim.

• 40 percent left because the Catholic Church went liberal. They became fundamentalist Christians.
• 40 percent left because it didn't go liberal enough. They became atheist and "spiritual but not religious." Or Unitarian.
• And we who remain think it's our responsibility to make the Catholic Church into what it ought to be.

It never should have been a "state religion." Putting Church into bed with State, was a huge misdeed. Constantine didn't do religion any favors.

-Joe-