What a depressing time to come back to blogging

Man... it seems like the only stuff out there right now is concerning the various abuse scandals throughout the Church.

When I left the blogosphere, this certainly was going on, but it seemed as though it had gone away for a few years. Now it seems to have returned even stronger. There is a concerted effort to derail the Church hierarchy and to undermine the credibility of our leaders. Mother Church has been under consistent attack by the media, the secular governments, the educational institutions, leaders of other faiths, intellectuals, and pundits.

Therefore, I will probably not devote a whole bunch of time to these issue; instead, I will focus on the broader problems that led to and contribute to the current state of affairs in America and in the world.