By Dwight Longenecker, Blog - Only in Catholicism is there still a priest, still a sacrifice, still atonement and reparation for sins. Only in Catholicism are there prayers offered for the dead, a squadron of saints, a phalanx of angels and a fearsome cohort of demons. The modern Catholic faith may be watered down… With her scandals and sad modernism, with her rock music masses and lazy, ignorant, heretical people she may be a sad vestige of her former self… there is life in the old girl yet, and like some stubborn old crone clinging to her rosary beads, statues and scapulas, with knees worn out from kneeling–there’s faith and grit and spiritual power in her that even the gates of hell cannot prevail against.