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Cardinal Newman on the current crisis

Fr. Z notes a letter Newman wrote on Christmas in 1841 in which he asked: ā€œHas not all our misery as a Church arisen from people being afraid to look difficulties in the face? They have palliated acts when they should have denounced them. [1]ā€ Sound familiar? [1]