J. D. Flynn: Advent is the Remedy for the Crisis

The past six months have proven difficult. The Church faces a crisis that does not need ongoing enumeration. But it is a crisis in which sincerity has come into question, in which trust has been eroded, and in which many Catholics are no longer certain who they can believe, and what they can trust. And, for at least some Catholics, it has occasioned a crisis of faith itself. Advent is the spiritual remedy to that crisis.