(Part two of two)  Theology based on "social science"?—mjmchale.  No, but being unafraid to draw from social science, afraid as the censure of the administration The (Pontifical) Catholic University of America, extending from 1990, seems to verify.

The Church does not have a monopoly on truth?—mjmchale.  That is right.  Not only did Galileo have a grasp of truth separate and independent from the RCC, but so does the rest of the thinking Faithful.