How Long the Great Apostasy?
Fr. Bernard M. Geiger, OFM Conv. Not many people are aware of it, but the great Apostasy of the Gentiles foretold both by Jesus and by St. Paul in the New Testament has finally come to pass. The biblical sign of its arrival has attested to this fact continually for the past 23 years. In fact, this great Apostasy has bogged the whole Church down badly. Moreover, the biblical sign of its merciful ending has yet to appear. Jesus was the first to announce this wholesale apostasy abandonment of the faith by future children of Gentiles who had once had it. He alluded to it in the parable of the widow and the unjust judge, with its lesson of how we must persevere in prayer and never lose heart even when God seems to be rejecting our prayers. Listen to the words of the unjust judge, and tell me, will not God give redress to his elect, when they are crying out to him, day and night? … I tell you, he will give them redress with all speed. But ah, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith l
