A Broken and Suffering Church

In light of the horrific allegations against former Cardinal McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, one has to be worried about the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Yes, it is a divine institution with Christ as the divine head and of course, "the gates of hell will not prevail against it," but the post modern world, with its technological advances is a strange place. Young people are simply not going to take this nonsense, they will walk away from organized religion, as they have been doing for years. Even though Pope Francis acted swiftly and other Bishops have been condemning the "moral failures of judgment," within the Church, the faithful are fed up with the sexual abuse crisis and all the secrecy surrounding it, large pay-offs and poor judgment calls. Real change, pragmatic change is needed and sadly will be slow in coming.
Any corporation or large secular institution would not continue to hold onto out-dated, falling policies or by- laws or laws which were hurting the institution and causing it harm. But that's what's happening here.
Mandatory celibacy for Roman Catholic priests has failed in many ways. And yet the Church continues to hold onto this man-made law even though it has hurt the Church tremendously in spiritual ways, financial ways and worst of all, caused great harm, in some cases.
Well my generation was upset, we are upset and frustrated with the blatant failures and the sexual abuse crisis, but the younger generation, they'll just walk away. Many of them want no part of organized religion and this is one of the reasons they've lost trust in institutions.
NJA