YES—seven reasons for hope! How easy it is to dwell on the imperfections, the corruption, even the crimes committed by some people in the Church (PS, it’s not just priests and bishops).

I know how hypnotic bad news can be. It’s human nature to slow down for that car crash, to go to the circus because maybe the trapeze artist might slip. Whatever it is. It’s part of our fallenness to wallow in what’s wrong instead of remembering what’s right.

So here are seven reasons why Catholics should be HOPEFUL.
And no matter what happens, God is in control, in grace we fall upward, and God is closer to us than we are to ourselves, said St. Augustine.