By Elizabeth A. Mitchell, The Catholic Thing - Do we, who guard the Church and her patrimony, a greater good than any upon the earth, watch thus attentively? Are we, in our blessed and prosperous land, at the ready to discover the enemy lurking in his work, and challenge his encroachment on all we hold good and holy? Or have we been sleeping the slumber of the unaware, the unconcerned, the neglectful, or the fearful?... If a devout Catholic from former times re-awoke in the Church today, he would find a disorientating and disturbing scene. A change has come upon the palace. A deathly pallor has set in.