Christian individuality

In the Catholic Church today we witness two tendencies. First the hierarchy in Rome seeks to dictate all the goings on of Bishops and faithful, plus how they think and feel about these activities. Conservative Catholics subordinate themselves to this disciplinary principle, at least in public, whatever their secret life might entail. On the other hand the critics of this situation have, in the name of "freedom from constraints" and "liberty to", joined hands with secular modernity. While they properly criticize the slavish status of conservative Catholics who are afraid to think for themselves, they, as individuals within the church have embraced a slavish subordination to the latest trends in liberal social circles. The conservatives engage with their world on a few moral issues, seeking to impose these on the entire population through the ultimate lawgiver in modernity, the state. The liberals engage with a limited number of issues, and in an effort to achieve equality, they too engage with the new ultimate lawgiver, the State. Their thinking about what they are doing and supporting does not originate from any form of a Catholic perspective, indeed thinking does not seem to have much to do with their life conduct at all. In both cases true individuality is lost, on the one hand crushed by the Roman Curia, and on the other seduced by the need to conform, to be embraced by the secular world, and hence, they too are other-directed. True Christian individuality based on the fact that each person must face death, eternity, their God, all alone, has disappeared from sight.