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How do you mean?
They're relatively unknown because the Roman Catholic church has 1700 year history of being a very harsh, unchanging, dogma oriented religion. The changes made at Vatican I & II were revolutionary and not everyone agreed with them. Many priests still grew up and were trained in that style and are unable or unwilling or unaware of the current teachings.
There is also a huge disconnect in the understanding of law between Italy and the United States that causes a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to some of the more controversial issues such as condom use. I will go into that particle issue in more detail if you guys would like.
I'm not tryin to sound like an authority, and I may not be 100% right, but this is the stuff that I learned about Catholicism, and like I said, I dont think anyone else here has been exposed to it.
The Catholic Church today is very different from the Church 100 years ago.
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I may be wrong, but I doubt it.
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