It’s not hard to find bad news for the Catholic Church today, whether it be the decline of Christianity in the West, or the increasingly public infighting within the Church (most recently, over Fiducia Supplicans and the idea of blessing same-sex couples), or any number of Catholic Church scandals. Given all of this, is this a sign that the ship is finally going down? Or does some historical context help to make sense of the present messiness? Specifically, what can we learn from the apparent victory of the Arian heresy in the golden age of the Church?

 
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