When you talk about celibacy you are talking about a unique challenge of the Roman Catholic church. I understand your concern about he supply of priests for the RC church. I have somehow become the doctor for local Catholic priests and half of them locally have been from the second world (mainly India). Western Christianity will survive. It has been around for 2000 years now. And Roman Catholicism will be part of it.

https://www.cbc.ca/...ces-minors-1.5006609

Today there was a report of over 200 coaches in amateur sports convicted of child abuse in Canada. Is there going to be an end of coaching?

Thirty or forty years ago many people went to church because it was respectable or expected. But many were not that committed. A greater proportion of the people who come now are committed. Jesus didn't talk about cultural hegemony in fact he talked about suffering for the gospel.

Will Western democracy survive? Full participatory democracy has been around for maybe one hundred years. Scholars are now talking about liberalism (in the classic sense) failing because of inherent problems in its basic premises.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot