The Comments are good, too.
How bad are things in the Church, though, really? Pretty awful. You may think Steve is overdoing it, but he isn't. However, being the phlegmatic character that I am, somehow I'm not losing sleep over it. No matter how bad things get, after all, we (Catholics and Orthodox) still have enough validly ordained priests around confecting the sacraments that God is truly with us in the Real Presence. That's better than the Protestants and their Real Absence.
But they're suffering miserably, as well. Apostasy is in the air: the state is pagan, Gays are in your face, and Islam is at the gates. The time for blasé Catholicism has past; the time for heroic Catholicism has come.
And there's always surprises, such as: http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/12/nuncio-in-switzerland-the-old-latin-mass-is-the-future-of-the-church/
There's always hope. And we've always prayer. So, get to it.
Otherwise, it's back to the beginning, actually. Lions, burning stakes. Nero. Caligula. Only we've got Islam to contend with this time around.
As Yogi Bera famously said, it's "deja vu all over again".
Happy New Year.
An Préachán
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