“It won’t be the Catholic Church.”
Once their tax exemptions are threatened they’ll fold like a cheap suit.
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Au contraire, it is under pressure that the church everywhere finds its heroes and heroines.
If anything was the most badly wrong with many denominations of Christendom today, it is that they were spoiled. Their success was so great in a worldly dimension that they rarely got inconvenienced.
So what can a God bent on victory do? Well, He removes the obstacle that was fomenting the laxity of faith.