Hi, "justmaybe",
Unfortunately, we have a church which thinks that all of Heaven needs to 'rescue & defend' it. 
No army came to rescue or defend Jesus.
  

 Time, said St. Augustine, never takes a holiday.  It ticks away.  The temptation to push time aside, to remain in some world of the past [where everything was perfect and golden], to live apart from the life lived by the people, ultimately, leads to a backwater in which there is not much life.  Unfortunately, we had this situation during the last years of Paul VI, and certainly during the pontificates of JP II and Benedict.


We still have it with some of these revanchist cardinals and some of the posters on this site.  The Holy Spirit wants the Church on earth to take some new directions.  Time and history are not fearful or hostile.  They, too, are the creation of God.  As St. Thomas Aquinas stated, "Time itself can be our coworker"

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Thomas Aquinas, "Commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle", bk. 4, 1. 6.