Archbishop Chaput's talk links the decline of belief, technology, and the collapse of the family to the utilitarian ideas of today replacing faith and logic. But this is the part about the "scandal".

Briefly put, that project is this. Permanent truths about good and evil, man and his behavior and meaning, do exist. Faith and reason are the means to find and know those truths. Each needs the other in its search....

I said a moment ago that I’ve always found talk of schisms in the Church or a “new Reformation” to be alarmist. I still do. The world is too different from half a millennium ago for easy parallels to apply. But I do think we’ve reached a tipping point or pivotal moment in the modern West, where even at the popular level, Christianity can be shed like dead skin...

The issues of how we organize society, how we build a healthy culture, and how we understand the meaning and dignity of the human person, are all very much in play today.

 Our country and the world need a pure voice speaking the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a response. And this is what makes the current sex abuse crisis in the Church so damaging and dangerous, like a lit match in a roomful of kindling.

The leaders tasked with witnessing Christian truth to the world as bishops and religious superiors are exactly the men who have too often failed their people, failed in their ministry, and even actively betrayed their vocation. We bishops and the Vatican itself are now seen as the problem. We need to face that fact honestly, and work to change it by our actions.

A long and subtle essay: and that is one reason that Chaput isn't a Cardinal, even though he is in charge of Philadelphia, whose archbishop traditionally is a Cardinal (he was sent there to clean up the scandal caused by cheerful "Uncle Tony", who by the way also served in Pittsburgh before he was sent east).

Sigh.

Remember there are many good priests and even good bishops out there who need your prayers.
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related items: Get ReligionBlog has discussions of MSM articles HERE and HERE.

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And VDHanson has an article worrying if a new American civil war is approaching. One of many articles about this worry, which has morphed from late night talk radio to a main stream intellectual worry.

this predated Trumpieboy (look up the definition of "Bork").