To continue:  women are better educated than any other time in history, and they don't want to be treated like children anymore; hence, the decline in sisters and nuns. And the orders of sisters who do treat their members like adults run the risk of getting in trouble with The Vatican (not necessarily with Pope Francis).  Women don't want their gender and 'sex' being seen as the root of all evil.  People have a hard time believing in Original Sin.  People don't see why divorce and remarriage are wrong.  People don't see why contraception is wrong (and I don't either but I think abortion is almost always wrong).  Too many of our RC senior citizens are spending their last years wondering if they are going to hell when they die -- what a great way to spend one's remaining years.  No one wants to spend their whole life being threatened with Hell if they step out of line once too often and don't 'repent'.  The RCC needs to address these issues and to mature.