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21st century/current issues - brief list
Reactions among Catholics to Vatican II fall into three camps. "Liberal" Catholics, drawing on the established Catholic belief in the "journeying" nature of the Church, see Vatican II and the new period that it marked in Catholic history as representing a significant advancement in man's understanding of the Gospels, which in turn justifies changes in Catholic belief and practice. "Conservative" Catholics (including the most recent popes) hold that the decrees of the Council, properly understood, are wholly in line with the historic Catholic faith, and that they should not be used as an excuse for unwarranted innovations. "Traditional" (or "[[Traditionalist Catholicism|traditionalist]]") Catholics regard the teachings of Vatican II as problematic, or even as heretical. Some created churches which use the old liturgies.
Reactions among Catholics to Vatican II fall into three camps. "Liberal" Catholics, drawing on the established Catholic belief in the "journeying" nature of the Church, see Vatican II and the new period that it marked in Catholic history as representing a significant advancement in man's understanding of the Gospels, which in turn justifies changes in Catholic belief and practice. "Conservative" Catholics (including the most recent popes) hold that the decrees of the Council, properly understood, are wholly in line with the historic Catholic faith, and that they should not be used as an excuse for unwarranted innovations. "Traditional" (or "[[Traditionalist Catholicism|traditionalist]]") Catholics regard the teachings of Vatican II as problematic, or even as heretical. Some created churches which use the old liturgies.
===21st Century===
Current issues facing the Catholic Church include:
* [[Cafeteria Catholicism]]
* The effect of liberal legislation on Catholic hospitals (such as funding for abortion)
* The aftermath of several sexual abuse scandals during the 2000s
* Increasing atheism and secularism in Europe
* Christianity in the Middle East, most notably the ongoing genocide of Chaldean Rite Catholics in Iraq
* The increasing Islamic population of Europe, and related issues of [[terrorism]] and [[sharia law]]
* Islam as a whole is now more popular than the Catholic denomination by itself
== See also ==
== See also ==