By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - The world has become a hollowed-out set of institutions wearing the skinsuit of the now-dead body of Western Civilization. What ought we do as Catholics living in the ruins?... Attendance at Mass has plummeted since that New Springtime for the Church, heralded by the Second Vatican Council. There has been no springtime. Indeed, in no area of human culture has there been any such—not in the fine arts, film, literature, education, social institutions, civic life, folkways; not in the ordinary interchanges of human beings outside of their homes; not even in life within the home.