"The story of the last 300 years is the story of spiritual declension and the squandering of the substance of Divine Truth. Christ, who is God, has been reduced to a mere man. Man, who is made to the image of God, has been reduced to a mere animal. And an animal, which is a living thing has been reduced to a mere atom. And this is called progress! There is no reason for despair. However much Western Civilization has been disillusioned it still feels itself in a foreign land. There is still some remembrance of the Father's House. Suffice it to say here that some are coming back again to God, not through the preservation of their baptismal grace, but by a trial of the world. They are dissatisfied in this foreign land of husks, They have learned on the staff of the economic and secular and found it pierced their hands." Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Prodigal World)