text: I agree, Mokantx, that this article seems to take a position that the Catholic Church as it is today will simply move focus to the South and West where there are people who want church practices in ways that the church wants to deliver them.  
  
  A different view of a different kind of change is seen if we pay attention to what is happening in the Royal Commission hearings in Australia and to some of what is coming out of Ireland - both places where the influence of the institutional/hierarchical church has been decimated.  
  
  The Royal Commission is evoking a thinking that is just stunning while looking into 1) Factors that may have contributed to the occurrence of child sexual abuse at Catholic Church institutions in Australia and 2)  Factors that may have affected the institutional response of Catholic Church authorities in Australia to child sexual abuse.  Why does it take a secular governmental body to get the hierarchy to even think to ask these questions?
  
  One more point to follow.