text: LifeoftheLay do you agree with me?
  NCR always seems to write its editorials for a very small audience: Very liberal people who have left the Church or who are at extreme odds with the Church and Her authentic teachings. We should all acknowledge something NCR refuses to accept: the Universal Church is now growing by leaps and bounds in the southern and eastern hemispheres of our globe, and these areas are even more conservative on moral and theological issues (albeit liberal on economic matters) than most Western religious conservatives. Which Western, mainstream conservatives have called for the imprisonment of gays? None that I know of. However, several RC bishops in the developing world have supported those efforts in their own countries. European and American liberals no longer matter; the power now resides elsewhere, and Holy Father Francis has accelerated this change due to his recent appointments "from the peripheries" to the College of Cardinals.