was called to achieve, has been a complete failure. Unless it was called to institutionalize failure, but I'm not quite that cynical] Have they perhaps sometimes been influenced by the secular ideology? Has it not cost us sometimes showing what and who we are inside and outside of the "public forum of history" (Benedict XVI). The Holy Father called us to "deworldification". We have to respond by examining our consciences and with the conversion of our hearts. Without this profoundly spiritual premise, the undertaking to evangelize would be pointless . So, finally at the end, we get to the good stuff.  I was actually much more hostile to his comments the 2nd time I read through them (see all the red above) than I was the first time.  It should be pointed out that Cardinal Varela is a big fan of Kiko Arguella of the disastrous neochatachumenal way, and even allowed Kiko to help redecorate the Cathedral. It's a bit ironic that a Spanish Cardinal -- of all places, if you know the history of the Church -- would use a modernist German theological term in order to advance his point about how the Church needs to be more worldly.  So while the Cardinal seemed to get it at the end, I am left perplexed, wondering if his entire philosophy is not such that "deworldification" might mean something radically different to him than it would to, say, you or I or St. Teresa.  And that, is the entire problem in