Still, in spite of the gloom and doom of the last posting, life goes on, and no cloud but has a silver lining. For example, a big benefit of the recent scandals in the Catholic Church and growing anti-religious trends in Western life is that they’ve squashed a lot of the happy talk the Church has been stuck with for the past 40 years and forced the bishops to try to figure out what it is they’re supposed to stand for and why. One example is this page on marriage on the website of the Archdiocese of Chicago, which provides facts and arguments that should be useful in current discussions.