There has never been a crisis as in the present time. Never before has Rome ever turned its back on its own past and attempted to re-orient the Church to the world it had once opposed. Nor had the Church ever before entered in a period of such swift, precipitous auto-destruction comparable to what has been occurring in the last forty years, all the while simultaneously introducing a new Mass, new prayers, new architecture, new music, new calendar, new rites of sacraments, new theology, new doctrines, new ecclesiastical structures. At the same time whole countries which once had been champions of the Catholic faith--Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain--became alien and hostile territories. Nor is this all. Scandal after scandal has struck the Church in huge tsunami-like waves of corruption. The missions have been wrecked, the religious orders have collapsed, catechesis is a joke. Don't try to tell me this is routine and that those in power the past forty years bear no responsibility for all this damage and destruction. They most certainly do. Paul VI and JPII especially.