text: Regarding: "...The Body of Christ in the United States and Western Europe is shedding members like a maple tree sheds leaves in October. This is not the consequence of secularism being newly attractive. It is not the result of some nefarious and latent Jacobin tendencies in Western civilization. It is not Obama’s fault. We got rich"
  - No doubt being unwelcomed has a lot to do with the 'shedding'.
  - No doubt confusing 'being catholic' with 'obedience to clericalism' has a lot to do with the 'shedding'.
  - No doubt poorly educated clerics, 'wanna be bishops', and longing for ornate and baroque vestments and decorations under the guise of 'honouring Christ' or 'creating mystery' has a lot to do with 'shedding'.
  - ON the whole the relativistic phrase 'we got rich' is at best a stumbling block but not the diagnostic edifice.