The war for the Catholic soul

Rod Dreher looks at one little skirmish. 

That is the crux, the essence, of what the Church - and I could also say the Christian Faith as a whole - is dealing with.  Must the Church continue to conform to the world, or is it time to insist the world conform to the Faith?

Much of the Catholic approach in recent years, even decades (no, it didn't begin with Pope Francis, or even Vatican II), has been to accept the premises of the latest the world has to offer.  Do we try to  be like the world?  After all, everything we call traditional was new once, or so the argument goes.  Or is it more difficult than that?

They say the fasted growing denomination in America is former Catholic.  We certainly haven't been following the 'hold fast and return to what worked' approach during this time.  Perhaps it's worth looking at the results - or the fruits, to use Biblespeak - of what has happened.  Just a thought.