text: As the celebrated Catholic philosopher, theologian, ethicist, historian and poet Judge John T Noonan has amply demonstrated in his magisterial work "A church that can and cannot change", history is resplendent with significant examples of radical change in church teaching.
  What will not change, of course, is the church's foundational commitment to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
  
  Those who are in deep denial of this empirically demonstrable reality are also alluded to in Dylan's song, where he roundly critiques them for incorrectly assuming that their ever-shifting cultural norms are eternal realities ...
  
  "The slow one now will later be fast
  As the present now will later be past
  The order is rapidly fadin'
  And the first one now will later be last
  For the times they are a' changin'!"