"I’ll still read Catholic news sometimes, but far less than I used to, mainly because I don’t have the heart to hear more bad news, and because the temptation to despair is all too real. But in the middle of the night, when the baby is crying and it’s my turn to rock him and my phone is the only thing that will keep me awake, I’ll read until I can’t stand it anymore, and then remind myself that God is in control and His plan is far better for me than anything I could come up with. Even so, fear and doubt seem to swirl about me like a cold fog in the night. God forgive me, but I’m not holy enough to have perfect trust..."
By A Catholic Dad Christe qui lux est et dies, noctis tenebras detegis, lucisque lumen crederis, lumen beatum predicans. I used to be obsessed with reading Church news. Every time I would get on my computer, I would open my email, Facebook, sometimes Twitter, and a selection Catholic news sites, all traditional, all decrying the evil in the Church. At first, I can honestly say it did me a lot of good. At the beginning of 2017 I would have hardly dreamed that by the end of that year I would be advocating the Traditional Latin Mass to anyone who could bear to listen to me talk about it. In time my family and I made the transition to attending the Latin Mass exclusively. We had found the treasure buried in a field, the pearl of great price, and it was largely thanks to such sites as this one. Precamur Sancte Domine, defende nos in hac nocte, sit nobis in Te requies, quietam noctem tribue. The overall unpleasantness of 2020 has become somewhat of a truism. This is certainly been true for my …