It is more and more pleasant for me to hear these speeches of Westerners gargling about the death of Catholicism, the death of this old skin of religion, when it is not the death of God, quite simply.
Essays, philosophical or otherwise, speeches, intelligent or not, and above all, the idle chatter of the global village, cannot mask the clatter of crutches, the limp, and therefore the unsteady gait of those who arrive sometimes alone, often in cohorts, to denounce this Catholic religion that has lasted far too long. Their laughter is coarse, and they are impotent. They bear a striking resemblance to those sated Roman senators laughing at the mere mention of the Barbarians on the eve of Rome's fall.
They continue to laugh because they don't know they're disabled; they're content with their claim because they don't see that the boat they're steering is taking on water. And since impunity is their way of life and thought, their antics must not escape anyone's notice. Qui tollis peccata mundi …
It is not religion that disappears. It is not religion that dies. It is their world, this arrogant and tedious Western world that is gradually becoming mired in its own contradictions and continues to mistake illusions for reality, living off a bygone glory and a soulless enthusiasm.
This Western world, which suffers desperately from its comfort and neurasthenia, will not last much longer.
The Catholic Church has more priests, more faithful, and more missions worldwide each year… If the Western world no longer welcomes it, if the Western world believes it no longer needs it, if the Western world, increasingly driven by a will to power, escapes its own history, then it is the Western world that inevitably sinks. Yet the Catholic Church has never ceased to extend its arms to it and to show it the conditions for its survival.
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