For most Catholics, the accusations against Pope Francis in the recent "filial correction" are unlikely to garner much attention because the faithful lack a fundamental knowledge of their faith nowadays.
Many Catholics especially in Europe and America don’t have the slightest knowledge or understanding of the basics of the Faith.
Most Catholics are poorly educated in the Scriptures as well as the doctrinal and moral teachings of the Church.
The Church has a huge catechetical task ahead, one that will find itself at times in conflict with a contemporary evangelization which focuses almost exclusively on mercy and non-judgmental dialogue alone.
“For most people, any dust of controversy raised by this filial correction will be ignored because the arguments fly over their heads. In the end, most Catholics will confirm their impression that there is nothing particularly binding upon their conscience in Catholic teaching anyway.
Let's be honest, this generation of Catholics are perhaps the most uninformed and uneducated in generations.
Their moral compass is directed not by the light of the Gospels and the teachings of the Church but rather by the whim and winds of the popular culture.
People nowadays care more about the well-being of whales than they do about the welfare of their fellowmen, Catholics among them. There is more outrage over the abuse of animals than over the abuse of people.
The Church has lost its ability to compete with the pressure which pop-culture exerts upon their thinking and behavior.
Whether or not the Church is able to discover a method of catechesis or evangelization to recapture the attention and concern of the faithful will determine the Church's history for generations yet to come.
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