text: Joe, we would have much happier Catholics if we had more confessors with the wisdom of yours. 
  
  I happen to belief that for very specific historical reasons, we are in the middle of a long period of doctrinal development which will involve recasting much old material in new forms. It may well be traumatic, because a great deal of theological education, which most of us do not have, will be necessary to grasp that a bronze ball recast as a bronze cube is the same bronze, the same core belief.