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Thanks for this great reminder. St. Leonard of Port Maurice is truly inspiring. His work on the Mass might be the best ever done on that topic. I encourage everyone to do as Colleen and click on the link and read the whole piece. Here are some more excerpts:

In the first point, to fill you with dread, I will let the theologians and Fathers of the Church decide on the matter and declare that the greater number of Christian adults are damned; and, in silent adoration of that terrible mystery, I will keep my own sentiments to myself. In the second point I will attempt to defend the goodness of God versus the godless, by proving to you that those who are damned are damned by their own malice, because they wanted to be damned. So then, here are two very important truths.
It is not vain curiosity but salutary precaution to proclaim from the height of the pulpit certain truths which serve wonderfully to contain the indolence of libertines, who are always talking about the mercy of God and about how easy it is to convert, who live plunged in all sorts of sins and are soundly sleeping on the road to hell.
[Doesn't this sound like the vast majority of Catholics today? Haven't we heard about nothing but God's mercy since Vatican II, and aren't the vast majority of Catholics living in mortal sin?]
Is there any state in the world more favorable to innocence in which salvation seems easier and of which people have a higher idea than that of priests, the lieutenants of God? At first glance, who would not think that most of them are not only good but even perfect; yet I am horror-struck when I hear Saint Jerome declaring that although the world is full of priests, barely one in a hundred is living in a manner in conformity with state; when I hear a servant of God attesting that he has learned by revelation that the number of priests who fall into hell each day is so great that it seemed impossible to him that there be any left on earth; when I hear Saint Chrysostom exclaiming with tears in his eyes, "I do not believe that many priests are saved; I believe the contrary, that the number of those who are damned is greater."
[Couldn't this have been written today?]

aren't the vast majority of Catholics living in mortal sin?

What an arrogant thing to presume, Max.

You have no way of knowing.

Why not take care of yourself, and stop putting people in hell?

A welcome reminder that Christ died for many, not for all.

How many is many? Precious few, if the world is anything to go by.

bttt

Thanks for highlighting this for me and I will read the entire article.

Solution: Go Protestant! Read the Bible!