[ebb tide]

And good Catholics are only slowly learning how to stand and resist.

But there were also other good Catholics who had learned the same much earlier into this pontificate.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Good Catholics were doing that as early as the Book of Acts, St. Paul vs St. Peter.

If I were proud as a pit-hag, I could oppose the pope in a contemptuous and scandalous spirit, but my insolence would destroy any good my "truth-telling" could hope to accomplish. The key is to retain, through grace, a lowly, loyal and filial spirit, a rare attainment in these days or in any days.