By Chris Sparks, Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. - As 2020 grinds along, it seems more and more things are falling apart. Violence here, injustice there, willful blindness from otherwise brilliant people when it’s not convenient to their politics or their own self-interest, a great muck of corruption across the globe, on and on — the list grows ever longer every day... In the midst of all this, it’s easy to get frightened. At some point in the face of this oncoming tide of massive transformation, of staggering death tolls, hugely consequential decisions at all levels of society, and a world more and more divided, fear becomes contagious.