text: The Catholic Church's assertion that it alone possesses the full truth of the nature of the divine mystery that created a visible universe with more than 100 BILLION galaxies is simply ridiculous.
  
  I have taught at Catholic institutions of higher learning, and I can tell you that disturbingly few of my students are taking the church's more literal teachings about the nature of God, Christ and reality seriously. It appears to me, just from my observations in recent years, that Catholicism is in real danger of losing its children.
  
  Oh yes, by the way, I teach World Religions, focusing on the spirituality of those religions.