Good News!  We remain a people of hope!

Despite recent postings regarding the “Nones” and concerns regarding if Newsweek ever did a cover story on us, we remain reminded that we are yet still on our way.

This is how the Holy Father stated it in yesterday’s papal audience (h/t Rocco) – -

“At this point maybe it’s useful to say that even today exist visions by which the history of the church in the second millennium was one of permanent decline; some see this decline beginning shortly after the New Testament. In reality, “Opera Christi non deficiunt, sed proficiunt,” the work of Christ never recedes, but progresses. What would the church be without the new spirituality of the Cistercians, the Franciscans and Dominicans, the spirituality of St Teresa of Avila and St John of the Cross, and so forth? Even today merits this affirmation: “Opera Christi non deficiunt, sed proficiunt,” they work continues. St Bonaventure teaches us both a necessary, even severe, discernment in sober realism and an opening to the new charisms given by Christ, in the Holy Spirit, to his church. And while this idea of decline repeats itself, there’s also the opposite idea, this “spiritualistic utopianism,” that is likewise repeated.

Or as the theologian Tim Allen once said, “Never Give Up, Never Surrender.”