From its palace in Vatican City, the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith monitors compliance with Roman Catholic moral teaching and
matters of dogma for the oldest church in Christendom.
These issues have little bearing on most of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. Faith, for them, rests in parish life and the quality of their pastors. In the 1980s, for example, when the congregation punished theologians who dissented from the papal ban on artificial birth control, the majority of Catholics who believe contraception is morally acceptable did not change their opinion.
http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2013/01/bishops-investigating-us-nuns-have-poor-records-on-sex-abuse-cases/
These issues have little bearing on most of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. Faith, for them, rests in parish life and the quality of their pastors. In the 1980s, for example, when the congregation punished theologians who dissented from the papal ban on artificial birth control, the majority of Catholics who believe contraception is morally acceptable did not change their opinion.
http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2013/01/bishops-investigating-us-nuns-have-poor-records-on-sex-abuse-cases/