Originally published at The Catholic Thing

After listing a number of crises in the Church, the Archbishop of San Francisco writes that these “are all important. But if you ask me, the problem underlying them all is the loss of the sense of the sacred — and most especially in how Catholics worship.” Clearly, too many of our next generation of Catholics are not meeting Jesus in the Eucharist. If they were, they would not abandon Him to join other religions, or simply to be absorbed by the secular culture.
 

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