What are most difficult issues in the relationship between Catholic bishops in the US and the Vatican?
I don’t really think there are any grave issues, if by “issues” you mean “disputes.” The Pope will challenge the bishops to be better teachers, an injunction which many of us in the laity will welcome. 3. It seems that a lot of US Catholics have serious problems accepting/conforming to Vatican’s teaching (cf. a NCR/Gallup survey). Is this a salad bar approach? Prof Alan Wolfe, whom I interviewed for this story, observed that the American Catholic church is much more American than Catholic these days. Would you agree? What are your thoughts when you see these statistics? Do you believe the Catholic Church can survive/overcome such strong individualism? Alan Wolfe is a partisan liberal whose views on these matters are not to be taken very seriously, and “cafeteria Catholicism” is one of the most tired of journalistic cliches. Wolfe also lives in Boston, which some of us call the capital of the Decadent Catholic Corridor. The fact is that the future of the Church in this country — measur
