There was a time during the sixties when Catholics, intoxicated with what we were convinced had come to us bottled in bond from Vatican II, were among the most optimistic predictors around. In our more extravagant moments some of us talked and wrote as if we were inspired by a scenario drawn up at a summit meeting presided over by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. Some of this optimism was still present when Commonweal brought out its “Church in the Year 2000” issue (October 31, 1969), though by then the more pronounced thing was the wrath of those who had begun to discover how laggard the Church was in its efforts to live up to the scenario that had been prepared for it.