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Pat Buchanan is right - the Church is wallowing in its now decades old swampy and morally limp accommodation to the world - now at its nadir (we dare to hope) as we contemplate the homosexual molestation of thousands of teenage boys by Catholic priests. And can it go any lower - after so many members of the Church's hierarchy have forgotten what they stand for to the degree that they have turned against children themselves? And certainly, we can see that so many of our priests do NOT seek to follow the way of Christ - who sought to bring souls to salvation and to persuade mankind to turn from sin - and who was fearless in rejecting the temptations of the world (pride, sexual perversity, arrogance, money, etc. etc.). But perhaps, just perhaps, we are turning the corner. For as the Church wallows in the depths of perversion and child torture, many Catholics are rediscovering their faith, returning to seek knowledge of their Bibles and of Tradition, considering Catholic schools for their children (though many Catholics are unsure, myself included, whether society in general or the people running the Church represent a greater threat to our children), and fighting for a return to orthodoxy and truth and an end to the modernist, sinful gobbledygook that we so often hear from our priests and bishops. This is a common historical cycle, and we are often sad that we were born into a pathetically morally weakened Church. Yet we can be excited that we can be part of the moral renewal of Catholicism, and that we can participate in the fight (and a holy fight it is) to bring our Church back to the way of Christ.