By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - It’s tempting to feel that we now live in a culture that’s lost its mind along with its soul; a culture that rivals Scripture’s cauterized “cities of the plain” with a thoroughly modern, 2.0 version of sexual anarchy (and its own “shameful acts against nature, such as were committed in Sodom,” as St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions); a culture of conflict, distraction, and grasping material appetites. The evidence, starting with decades of industrial-scale killing of the unborn, often suggests exactly that.