The Faith is alive and well. Millions of Catholics continue to go to Mass, to work with RCIA candidates, to work with engaged couples, to continue to believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is not confined to pederast clerics.
Yet you would rather insult and denigrate the poster, the reviwer, and the author, than examine the merits of the article.
I didn't say a word about the poster (except that he seemed surly, which he agreed with).
The author and reviewer seem obsessed; obsessed with sex as the fulcrum on which the fate of the Church hinges.
The Church in the USA is rotten to the core, and you think its peaches and cream.
You live in Altoona,Pa. I live in Fort Worth, Texas, where Bishop Delaney eats two meals a day and can pack everything he owns in the trunk of his car.
The Church, where I live, is in pretty good shape.
If you want to tell me the Church is is alive and well in the USA, explain why 85% of married Catholics of childbearing age contracept or are sterilized.
Contraception, done with full knowledge and consent, is MORTAL SIN.
Those in mortal sin may not receive commununion.
Our priests KNOW THIS!
Yet how many of this 85% receive commununion every Sunday?
A priesthood riddles with dissent and sexual avarice does not have the moral authority to call the laity to repentance. To admit those to communion who the priests knows to be in grave sin, is grave sin on the part of the priest.
So both the priesthood, as well as the vast majority of the laity, is de facto living in grave sin in this country. Their culpability is known only to God.
But no one can tell me that Likoudis sees the cup half empty while they see the cup half full.
By my math, 85% aint't half by a long shot.
No one with a straight face and an orthodox understanding of the Faith can see the data on contraception and say The Faith is alive and well.