I saw this interview with a pretty cool priest the other day.. he started from the premise that sex/uality was something given by god and so deserved honour and respect and celebration, and the rules for its deployment came after that premise. A step in the right direction, IMO, but then I'm not Catholic :)

I also think reports of the Catholic church's demise are somewhat premature, it is still growing by leaps and bounds in Asia, Africa and Central and South America, enormous "markets" that are quite sufficient to carry it if Europe and North America can't. It's going to mean some important changes though to the way the church does business, and I'm not at all sure I know what those changes might be.