text: I sent a link to that speech to Josh McElwee a couple of weeks ago, but it seems to have been missed.
  
  Here is one more thought provoking quote, this time something Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Australia said in Aug 2016 in talking about a national synod the Australian bishops have agreed to hold in 2020 - the first since 1937: 
  
   "we are at a time of profound cultural change. Not only in the wider community, but in the Church. ... I think we have to accept the fact that Christendom is over – by which I mean mass, civic Christianity.  It's over.  Now, how do we deal with that fact?"  
  
  I don't think U.S. bishops and the U.S. public are ready to admit it, but what Coleridge said applies here, too.  It has long since happened in much of Europe.  It hasn't reached the same point in Ireland, but is not far from it.  It is happening in Poland, but it is in an even earlier stage.  
  
  The church cannot go on as it has.  It must listen to real people who live in today's world.