Oh Poppycock! The Church is doing fine. Millions and millions are practicing their faith and living their faith, and passing their faith down to their children.
The perverts and sodomites which infest the clergy, have indeed commanded people to depart from sound biblical doctrine, and the very validity of the matter and form of the sacraments.
This isn't very widespread, though one could be led to believe otherwise if one segregates oneself from the normative church and limits his intake of information to publications which exist for the sole purpose of justifying the separatist mentality that organizations like the SSPX promulgate.
that is why the Holy Spirit has raised up the Society of St. Pius X. Pope John Paul II is desperate to "get them back."
LOL. Yeah, the pope is real desparate. It's been sixteen years since Ecclesia Dei was issued. That alone should have "got them back". If you refer to recent developments in a rapprochement, you confuse desperation with charity.