By Laramie Hirsch, The Fatima Center - The world is obviously a geopolitical mess. There are marvelous modern tools at our disposal, but there are corresponding malevolent abuses of them. So, too, in the Catholic Church. This Divine Institution can reach across the globe to all ports and provinces, but we’ve never seen the Church with the kinds of problems we are now having to endure... Particularly with the Catholic hierarchy, we see that it no longer inspires. The leadership no longer give us the confidence it used to. Bishops and prelates used to be steady guides through the storms of history. ...