By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - The Synod was a series of fixations on matters of utter inconsequence, rather like the deck hands busily arranging chairs on the Titanic before its final plunge into the sea... There was a time, not so very long ago, when the raging controversy among Catholics was about how best to receive Holy Communion... How quaint it all now seems up against a backdrop of widening apostasy, in which an alarming number of Catholics no longer even believe in the Eucharist. ..