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Thirty years ago, observers confidently predicted that liberalization of the Catholic Church was bound to happen, and some even predicted the church would soon be ordaining women and changing its sexual ethic. Now, two contributors to Commonweal, the flagship magazine of liberal Catholicism, debate whether the liberal project to reform the church has a future.
