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Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland
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There were 2 stories that interested me in today's news updates. The first was the ongoing “Problem with Islam” and the second was the decline in vocations by approximately 50% in Australia with the median age of religious now being 73 years. I'm afraid a similar pattern is seen in other (formerly) Catholic countries as well.
Why is this happening? For the answer, I would like to quote Fr. Paul …More
There were 2 stories that interested me in today's news updates. The first was the ongoing “Problem with Islam” and the second was the decline in vocations by approximately 50% in Australia with the median age of religious now being 73 years. I'm afraid a similar pattern is seen in other (formerly) Catholic countries as well.

Why is this happening? For the answer, I would like to quote Fr. Paul Shaughnessy, S.J.

"If we examine any trust-invested agency at any given point in its history, whether that agency be a police force, a millitary unit, or a religious community, we might find that, say, out of every hundred men, five are scoundrels, five are heroes, and the rest are neither one nor the other: ordinarily upright men who live with a mixture of moral timidity and moral courage. When the institution is healthy, the gutsier few set the overall tone, and the less courageous but tractable majority works along with these men to minimize misbehavior; more importantly, the healthy institution is able to identify its own rotten apples and remove them before the institution itself is enfeebled. However, when an institution becomes corrupt, its guiding spirit mysteriously shifts away from the morally intrepid few, and with that shift the institution becomes more interested in protecting itself against outside critics than in tackling the problem members that subvert its mission."
www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otr.cfm

To fully understand the 'Problem With Islam” I believe that we need to keep in mind the very real threat that its proponents pose to infidels non-Muslims.

www.islamreview.com/articles/Islam_is_not_a_…
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