text: "The Language of Doctrine".  An article by Tony Flannery in an article March 30 on associationofcatholicpriests.ie.  Flannery talks about why the Catholic church - and many of its beliefs - have lost credibility, beyond the obvious reason of the sex abuse scandal, teachings on sexuality....  He sees a more fundamental problem
  
  "Some of the very basic doctrines of the Church no longer make sense to the modern mind, and are being quietly rejected even by people who still attend church. Some of these doctrines are not Scripture based, but came out of the early centuries of the Church, a time when there was a very different understanding of the world and of humanity, and, probably most significant of all, a very different language which is still used to proclaim these doctrines… Our understanding of the universe and of the human person, through science, has greatly influenced the way we look at ourselves and the universe, and Church doctrine has not adapted to this…"
  
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