Lost Catholics- so very, very sad !

         Reading letters and columns in Boston newspapers, I 'm struck

    by the profound crisis of FAITH now in so many Catholics. Imagine

    being a 65 year old lady - facing ETERNITY - without the faith of

    her whole life  still there to console her !  How easy to understand

    those Catholics on the defensive, thinking  that there is also

    a conspiracy of EVIL against the Church.

             Brought up Catholic myself , I concluded a long time ago

    that FAITH was simply beyond REASON,  and not to take the Catholic

    Church too seriously. But I never wanted to lose respect for the

    2000 year old institution. Oh, how the mighty have fallen !

               I study the face of Cardinal Law. And see only a

    bewildered and tired bureaucrat. Remember the movie " The Cardinal "

    that came out in the early 60s- when Catholic  churches like St.

    Paul's in Cranston were packed on Sundays ? What a difference a

    generation makes !

              Behind all that grandeur of a prince of the Church was

    the simple faith of  millions of humble people. When that is gone,

    the mystique is gone. Not even Bingo games will bring it back !

                If Jesus was not a poor deluded fool, it is time for

    HIM to come back - and straighten things out.

               Without even being a conservative in matters of faith,

    I can see how the Church  self-destructed with Vatican II.

                By the late 60s the Devil was REFORMING things Catholic.

            That was when you visited an empty church and suddenly

    felt that it was really EMPTY.

                  Is  cosmic chaos the only supreme force in the

    universe ?  God help us !