1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between
teaching and the reception of
teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's
teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether
teaching is brought into
line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their
job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church
teaching, usually
on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.
But helping their bottom
line is the fact that last year, Mandy, 35, got a full - time
job teaching elementary school after supply
teaching on and off for 10 years.