Amen.
I am reminded of a quote from Pope Benedict: “We have to learn to believe again.” In my humble opinion, the crisis in the Church today is the crisis of fidelity to Christ at all levels—starting with the hierarchy. Random Catholics today lack knowledge of the most basic tenets of the Church. That’s a huge failure and is very telling about current state of the Church. Scriptures taught us to “seek ye first the kingdom of God and all its righteousness… and all things shall be added unto you…” The Catholic faith is simple and about one Person—Jesus Christ. In the midst of modern days’ complexity and sophistry, we often forget that Christ chose the apostles—simple, faithful men, peasants, fishermen—to spread the Gospels to all corners of the world. These men evangelized the world with their simple faith in Christ and with whatever they could carried with them.
Today, somehow the Church has gotten distracted by many fronts—social justice, climate change, culture tolerance, religious tolerance, gender agenda, etc…—that Christ is at risk of being irrelevant. To be fair, these fronts do have their own merits and good intents: We must care for the poor and comfort the afflicted; we must be good stewards of the earth; we must be sensible and respectful toward cultures and religions; we must fight prejudice and racism; etc…But, the Catholic Church has been and will always be about Christ. Without Christ as its head, the Catholic Church ceases to exist.