Comments on: “The all-powerful arm of God is necessary” to deliver the Church http://orthosphere.org/2013/02/18/the-all-powerful-arm-of-god-is-necessary-to-deliver-the-church/ Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists - Joseph de Maistre Sat, 25 May 2013 20:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Nicoloso http://orthosphere.org/2013/02/18/the-all-powerful-arm-of-god-is-necessary-to-deliver-the-church/#comment-14449 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:36:57 +0000 http://orthosphere.org/?p=3045#comment-14449

As regards the bishops, very few of them possess genuine zeal for souls. Almost all religious communities – and one could omit the “almost”– are relaxed. As a result of the present state of general confusion, observance has collapsed and obedience is a thing of the past. The state of the secular clergy is still worse: so, in a word, there is a need for a general reform of all clerics and ecclesiastics if there is to be any improvement in the present great corruption of morals among the laity.

A reform was shortly to come, at the hands of avowed enemies of the Church in 1789. We might hope that our chastening need not be quite so severe.

]]> By: Beefy Levinson http://orthosphere.org/2013/02/18/the-all-powerful-arm-of-god-is-necessary-to-deliver-the-church/#comment-14433 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:37:16 +0000 http://orthosphere.org/?p=3045#comment-14433 Thank you for this. It pains me to see the Church in such disarray, but in many ways it has ever been so.

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