"The Universal Church is today, it seems to me, more definitely set against the World than at any time since Pagan Rome. . . The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide."

-- T. S. Eliot