Who would choose to be a Catholic at a time like this?

The phoney war is over. Civil war has been launched within the Church by Pope Francis and his recent appointee Cardinal Victor Fernandez. 

Many of the recent theological and political tremors that have emanated under the leadership of the Pope have produced a degree of incoherence and uncertainty. But the ambiguity is now over. 

Secular culture has for many decades prioritised the sanctification of erotic and romantic relationships. It has additionally set them within an overall framework of what we might call “therapeutic ontology”. What this means in practice is that whatever makes people feel better is good. And since God is good, whatever makes us feel better is good. And God must therefore will it.