For Church to be relevant, it must avoid childish things
Lose the Gospel, return to childishness; this seems to be the order of the day.

Lose the Gospel, return to childishness; this seems to be the order of the day.
This is not a trivial development, for it goes to the heart of the deepest questions of existence.
In the space of a few decades, the moral intuitions of society have not simply parted company with those of Christianity — they have come to stand in direct opposition to many of them.
Which is more threatening? Trumpite “evangelicalism” or Biden’s brand of “devout” Catholicism?
Ours is a time of anthropological crisis when we as a society cannot agree on what it means to be human.
Desecrating the cathedral is not the only thing they should be ashamed of.
Attending a gay wedding involves remaining silent when one should speak.
Perhaps Hitler has won, though on the left — the opposite end of the political spectrum to that we might have expected.
For all her faults, the Church is ultimately the solution. Conforming her to the world can only be part of the problem.
It is neither pastoral nor caring to deny the moral significance of the sexed human body, nor to participate in the further demolition of an institution whose purpose is to provide children with a loving and stable environment.