“We are living at the end of Christendom – not the end of Christianity.  By Christendom is meant the political, economic and social order pervaded by the Gospel ethic.  We no longer live in a Christian civilization.  Christendom refers only to the world and its institutions; Christianity refers to Christ and His Mystical Body in its evident outreach to the world.  The era of Faith was succeeded by the era of Reason, which, in turn, has given way to our Sensate Age.  Christianity is considered off the reservation.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)