Changes have taken place in how things are perceived.

Spiritual life is being recognized as not well served by verbose, repetitive recitations of liturgical text divorced from deeply motivated impulse.

In one area of life after another, designs to control the laity by Church authorities have come to be seen as based on the authorities' unhealthy and pathetic psychological needs, not love.

Required attendance at Mass seem like just another way to gain such control by enforcing commitment under threat and with the use of fear.

Church authorities more and more are seen as clinging to their own secure positions and sticking to their dogmatic guns instead of being adaptable and flexible to expanding understandings of what is good and loving.

Requiring people to profess what they see as cruel and unjust attitudes and judgments toward some others, without sufficient understanding and empathy, forces people to choose good over institution.