Caution should be exercised before reading Mr Lospinuso’s fine article The Lost Civilization of American Catholicism. His reportage might enrage you at what was lost. Needlessly lost.

Peril awaits the man who chooses self over God. A heavenly war raged over an angel who did. All the more peril awaits the man who treats God as a therapeutic or, worse, a cabaret act. Fr. Robert McTeigue sketches for us, with masterful panache, the consequences of this new non serviam, not only for the Church but for society as well.