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Too many women were let into convents in the fifties and sixties as a career choice, rather than a spiritual choice, and that caused some of the problem...

But a lot of this starts in increments.

What's even more bothersome to me is this: You don't automatically find it on their website. But if you go and look for stuff like the diocesean rules for sex abuse or help for the abused, this prayer is in the sidebar. So people who are checking out CCD related stuff can get exposed to this garbage.

So if you have been injured by unfaithful priests or others, and are looking for help, or you want to check out to make sure the policies are good to protect your children, or you're wondering something along those lines, you get exposed to this crap.

Dear Lord, what a wicked thrust of the devil. Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of battle!

Many of the 50's & 60's nuns who weren't career women were also affected by the era. Everything became 'easier'. (Isn't there something about the road to hell?...) Locally we have a convent that has been here for 125+ yrs. Some of the nuns I had as a teacher as a kid, who entered the convent in the 40's and even earlier fell to the 'modernizations'. A third have retained the old habit and prayer life. A third or so have the shorter modern habit and a less strenuous prayer life. And, you guessed it, the last third or so have gone totally secular. And these were not young or new nuns, but 'classically' trained. And they are the ones in charge. The convent is 'dying'. Just one or 2 new nuns in 40 years!, and both are over 40. The fruits, indeed. It was initially shocking to see these conservative nuns as kids, now radically embracing the new age years later.

I can only imagine what Pope Leo was going through when he comprised the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. It seems to all be coming true, and just when you think it can't get any worse, well so far it has.