I don’t agree with the prophets of doom.
They always talk as if the present, compared with the past,
is getting worse and worse.

I see mankind entering a new era,
and I see in this a divine plan.
This plan,
in the course of time and in and through what man does,
pursues its own purposes, its own goals,
and they are
far,
far
beyond man’s expectations.

John XXIII
quoted by Fr. Frank DeSiano
at the NCCL Meeting, San Diego