Originally published at crisis magazine
As I noted in the Crisis Point podcast yesterday, we seem to be living in apocalyptic times. Every week brings some new and horrific disaster, whether that be a new war breaking out or a new cataclysmic hurricane forming. Combine that with the heresy and corruption rampant in the Church and the insanity of our current election (have we already forgotten that one of the candidates has faced not one, but two assassination attempts?), and it’s enough to make one wonder whether we are living in the End Times.
I can’t answer that question, but I do think these happenings are a wake-up call for Catholics; specifically, a call to wake up and pray.
There’s lots of theories as to why the practice of Catholicism has fallen so dramatically in recent decades, and why the Western world has degenerated into paganism (and of course those two are not unrelated). Many of those theories have merit, but I would argue that a decline in prayer is a major part of the problem—and therefore an intensification of prayer is a major part of the solution.
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