Not to woe did the angel swear, but to peace.  Nonetheless, the price of victory will not come cheap.  It never does.  A realistic look reveals who has been, is, and will be the cause of those horrors to come with such magnitude as human imagination cannot totally grasp: the world's every person fundamentally lawless, but also the Church's every member tepid and timid.  The tribulations of Christ's mystical body are among “the things that must come” [Apocalypse 1:1].  They must, on account of God's highest concession to man: freedom.

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