Let us form a shield of encouragement for ourselves.

It is really good to see people still proud to be catholic when there is so much attacks against the church. Let us keep it up. It has always been a thing of great concern to me that we know so little about our faith. let us share together here. The church has been battered by many ugly histories but the gates of hell shall not prevail. The human element in the church should not discourage us. God won't ask us how well we have been able to argue against the misdeeds of a priest, nun, or a catholic lay but how we have been able to live love (and there is much lack of love, of good faith in anti-catholic protests meant to attack rather than to know). For those who want to know, I would like to recommend "Rome Sweet Home" by Scott Hahn and "The Faith Explained" by Leo J. Trese from any catholic bookshop. Let us form a shield of encouragement for ourselves. The young are especially vulnerable in a world of crisis of faith.