text: What is behind the fear?   Loss of control and loss of dictatorial power.  Ego.  Fear of change, that has plagued the Church since Galileo, Martin Luther, the Enlightenment, the formation of democratic governments, the Industrial Revolution, historical-critical biblical exegesis, women gaining social and political and economic power, birth control pills, in-vitro fertilization, globalization and mass communications.
  
  The power and influence of the Church in the past was enormous.  It is not now as powerful as it once was.  I think they do not know how to let go and let their children grow up.  Thing is, the children will do that anyway, with or without the parents help.  And then the children become the teachers of the parents in many ways, while still seeking the underlying parental wisdom.  Conundrum.