Profile of Cardinal Ouellet | National Catholic Reporter

Profile of Cardinal Ouellet | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: More modernity, as the Cardinal is accused of, or rather simply admitting that there is truth outside of Catholic doctrine on moral issues (a key component of both natural law and biblical study), is sadly needed in the Church.  I still talk to theologians who talk about Adam and Eve or the dodge "our first parents" with a serious tone, when likely there were no such people.  Evolution put us here and migration moved some early humans out of Africa and into the Middle East (where there was comingling of DNA with Neanderthals.  Maybe that step down the evolutionary ladder was the original sin.  That is but one example where outside research is proving truer than doctrine.  The other notable one is sex - from Continence to female priests to gay marriage.  Indeed, there is much work still to be done to usher in modernity - like seriously looking at the ontology of the soul in comparison with conception, gastrulation and death.  While we need a Pope who can tell the Trads in CDF to shut up and listen to the rest of the world,

it is more necessary to find someone who is brave enough to advance long needed reforms, beefing up cooperation with criminal investigations of bishops and priests involved in sexual abuse, the creation of new Patriarchies in the western Church, making them Autocephalus on matters of faith and morals and thus opening the door to allow protestants to come back into the fold.  These reforms will happen regardless of whether the next pope, Peter the Roman, initiates them or fights against them - since once he has been martyred, they will happen anyway.