On a related point, will there maybe be a renewed interest in protestantism?
I'm being serious. Apparently the COI is the fastest growing church in the country. Not sure if the growing numbers are as a result of 'defectors' from the RC church, latecomers to christianity just picking a church, or maybe even recent immigrants (e.g. Lithuanians, but I get the impression they are largely not church goers) or maybe it's a bit of all three.
The conditions are certainly right for another mini reformation as such - criminality, abuse of power/wealth and corruption in the RC church - which was why people 'protested' in the first place after all. I realise many would argue that relatively speaking, these conditions haven't really changed much in the last few hundred years - and I also realise that despite everything, the RC faith and tradition is not something simply to be abandoned by many people.
Just curious if any disillusioned practicing or semi practicing catholics have ever considered 'the move to the other side' ?