If you want to read something heartwarming, go read the post by Fr. Ray Blake (in the UK) entitled, Green Shoots. He voices some things that I have been telling people for the past year or so - signs that give me great hope for the future of the Church.
Go read Fr. Ray Blake on Green Shoots!
While you are at it,
go take a look at his latest project.
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The obedient are not held captive by Holy Mother Church; it is the disobedient who are held captive by the world!