Well, not really. The vice of sloth (acedia) is properly applied to the spiritual life.  It is an attitude of sluggish commitment to the pursuit of virtue. (yes, we faithful must continuously strive to be more patient, humble, charitable…)

Yet I confess a certain slothfulness in the secular sense for not keeping this blog current.   My sincere apologies to those of you who have been checking in to see if anything new was EVER going to be posted.

Family duties and a marvelous pilgrimage trip in France are an excuse on– the surface.  But in all candor,  like many of you, I’ve struggled with something constructive to say about the state of our culture.  One cannot ONLY decry the grave conditions–we live amidst such dehumanizing policies (abortion, homosexual unions, cloning, embryonic stem cell research, etc.) and even within Christian populations apathy seems to dominate discourse. The stock market holds more importance than the devolving culture, it seems.

Alas, some of you are tapping me on the shoulder with a “get moving” message. A few days ago Inside Catholic ran an article I wrote a few years ago, Eight Habits of Highly Effective Bishops. New readers arrived here from the link only to find a post from February. Mea Culpa. Pray that I reform my slothful ways!

There are many topics I want to touch upon in the coming weeks.  Just tonight I sent a friend a copy of a YouTube video that i making a strong impact on Evangelicals and Catholics. It is a very graphic look at how Christians are loosing the demographic war.  The information is not new, we have known these figures for years now. But this video is visceral:

watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

What remains unsaid is that we Christians have ignored God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply.”   In short, we are reaping what we have sown.  Muslims have been largely immune to the massive population control measures pushed on the world by the United Nations.

Five years ago I gave a talk at a women’s conference and quipped, “Westerners want three TVs, two cars and one child.”  Now we see that  our materialistic values have brought us to the precipice of extinction.

On a mystical plane we must remember that God has honored us with the privilege of co-creating with Him each time  new baby is born. These are the children who will live for eternity. If we refuse to cooperate with God’s plan, deny the reality of the body and its theological import, then we have denied a soul an eternal life with God.

The video ends with “This is a call to action” …but what action?  To evangelize  Muslims? Evangelize them to what? A lukewarm Christianity that no longer acknowledges that God is a Father who commanded us to populate  heaven for eternity?  (”Be fruitful and multiply”).

What do you think about our collective failure on the matter of contraception?

Tags: contraception, Depopulation, Islamic threat.