we ought to be glad that these Christian forms are imprinted on our common life, and, when necessary, we should dust them off and clean them up or otherwise strengthen and encourage them. Yet it has always been true, even in the Middle Ages, that this Christian culture exists side by side with non-Christian and anti-Christian elements. Ever since the Enlightenment, Western culture has been moving away from its Christian foundations with increasing rapidity. The disintegration of the family and marriage, the escalating attacks upon human life and its dignity, the confinement of faith to the
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