[Aquinasfan]

We American Catholics have been so bludgeoned by secularism that we seem no longer capable of seeing what was crystal clear a mere century and a half ago.

The anti-Catholic forces who established the government schools and compulsory attendance laws were very visible in the late 1800s.

It's ironic that Protestants are now abandoning the very institution that they created.

[Siobhan]

It is ironic. Things established for rotten purposes, rot from within.

[TradicalRC]

nce you break from tradition and set yourself up as an authority, you have no leg to stand on when the next generation rises up and rejects your authority.