I have counseled my peers to remain confident and hopeful. These swings of the pendulum are tough to live through but are largely self-correcting, just not in our lifetimes.

As this article illustrates, those who reject Humanae Vitae and so on did not reproduce, or if they did their offspring had zero interest in orders, and so the incoming generation are the offspring of those Catholics many posters look down their noses at. It is rather poetic justice.

The zanier the opinions, the lower is the probability their next generation will be seen in a Catholic parish, as the folks about which this article was written are finding out.

Unfortunately one needs a rather long life-span to see it all work out.