text: This report deserves close attention, and a second or third reading as it tells us far more then what most comments would indicate.  The questions are greatly nuanced and posed in ways that are designed to check for "accuracy" (consistency and revealing of detail).  What this survey confirm for us, as we have been discussing on these boards for years, is that the Church is in a period of great transition and that the laity is going in a different direction than the hierarchy.  The "fight" about loyalty to the Magisterium, traditional Catholicism and its practices, and the moral rigidity of outdated beliefs, as well as the failure to recognize and act on the equality of male and female Catholics, creates he growing divide but is basically over.  The laity is doing what it places in great importance: the individual conscience determines their choices.  Period.  The Church missed the boat years ago in not joining with its people to assume a true teaching role: now no one listens to them.