What's Christianity with a small `c'? A pick-and-choose religion. I know many Catholics (perhaps they're in the majority) who happily ignore the more inconvenient papal orders/edicts/proclamations/diktats (I'm sure there's more satisfyingly mediaeval words for it) and still call themselves big-C, Communion-compliant Catholics -- despite, for example, the use of those little rubber things. If you take only the best of Catholicism -- its most humane, help-on-the-ground socially-engaged qualities -- it would make astonishingly good sense to no longer call it the Catholic Church but the Catholic Community. Deity go hang. Even I might be converted to that (instead of being requested to fold my arms against the priest during my children's confirmations, mutely indicating that I am a non-papist and unworthy to receive the gifts of the Saviour).
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