Pope Hopes Catholic Americans Will Revive the Church?

THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT:  “In a stunning announcement on Monday, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (via the apostolic nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano) has just laid the heaviest burden in 2,000 years on the shoulders of Catholic Americans.  Realizing that Christianity in Europe is beyond recovery, the Holy Father has called upon the U.S. Catholic Church to ‘lead the way’ in revival of the whole Catholic world….”

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One would think a great deal would have to happen in the Church in the United States first. However, it should be recalled that in Europe, Americans are considered to be more “religious” than Europeans themselves are. Let us work and pray that we may have the right stuff to convert our own land first.