What's said of resurrection as foundation of Christian faith is true, Greg. There are thousands of notions of faith within Christianity and thousands more within other religions. One of Canada's most distinguish commentators, Michael Enright, said on his Sunday national radio program "the Catholic Church is the biggest criminal organization in the world"---and no one said boo. The church is changing too fast for many and too slow for others. Changing from earlier taught, yes. Infallibility? Benedict says "Who am I to judge."

It's not for me to say why Dad was accepted. His friend and mentor, Msgr Francis Smyth, told me at baptism that my father knew more about the Church than he "and I studied for seven years in Rome."My guide in these matters is Northrop Frye, Canadian ordained minister and author of The Great Code, the Bible and Literature, and considered one of the most influential literary critics and literary theorists of the 20th century. I commend one of his quotes to you:

"The knowledge you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destiny and the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: it is not darkness but shadow."

My three sons married Catholics. Their eight children were raised as Catholics, and their eight children are Catholics. I live in an Acadian parish where the priest counselled tubal ligation for families too large to provide properly for their children. Unlike the mostly deferential Irish, the French take their priest on when they think he is wrong. Your spiritual community may do things differently, Greg. I doubt it would accuse our Acadians as failed or bullshitters.