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RECENT COLUMNS
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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
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Sunset of a papacy?
Antonio Socci, Rorate Caeli
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
After these past eight years – the Church – has not flourished, but appears annihilated. Religious life is in a comatose state. The Church’s central government, in the Vatican, is in permanent chaos. Confusion, even doctrinal, reigns supreme in the entire ecclesial community. The balance of Sunday Mass attendance is devastating and vocations are now in free-fall (among other things, with the collapse of sacramental marriages). The clergy and the bishops seem to have gone adrift.