text: The Roman culture embraced slavery, infanticide [exposing unwanted infants in hostile environments], suicide [it was manly for a man to kill himself if by his jailing he would be demeaned], etc.  Our Western Rite still calls itself the Roman Catholic Church---and it embraced Roman law for much of its model of Canon law.
  
  But today, we no more belong to the Roman empire than we do to the planet of the apes.  It is time for the Church to stop allowing ancient understandings of language or custom [which gave rise to shape how we minister to PEOPLE OF TODAY.  Study and learn from the past, but don't be shackled by it.