Andrew Sullivan, as usual, has a thougtful post on being Catholic and how this is reconcilable with modernity.  Here’s the problem: those folks who want to show that Catholics and the modern age have a lot in common might run the same risks liberal Protestants ran in the end of the 19th century, basically ending their religious faiths.  And then those conservative Catholics that want to save everything–well, they just wind up looking reactionary and not often that thoughtful.  As usual, it’s the golden mean that works out, and Sullivan, I think, is one of the folks that does this well.