“Transfiguration is not the same as futurism, which regards this world as becoming better and better until it is turned into an early paradise. Transfiguration means that through catastrophe, crisis, and final judgment, old things are made new. This new kingdom is not in time at all, but in eternity; its existence is not due to an eruption of the mundane with the heavenly, but a visitation of the spiritual with the human – a visitation morally conditioned. It is the very reverse of the Tower of Babel.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen