The Catholic church is indestructible. It is the oldest institution in the entire world, and the church has been attacked from within and outside for 21 CENTURIES. And guess what? The church has prevailed over Wicked Roman emperors, Barbarians, Attila the Hun, the Vandals, the Visigoths, the Vikings, Muhammad and the Muslim jihads for 8 centuries. The church has prevailed over the corrupt kings of England, the Mongolians, Ivan the Terrible, the first Russian Tsar, the French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Darwin, King Mowanga, the Japanese Shogun, the Chinese Communist Party, Benito Mussolini, Vladimir Lennon, Primo de Rivera, the Spanish popular front, Josef Stalin, Plutarco Calles, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Ming, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara... And the Catholic Church has buried and outlasted ALL HER ENEMIES. We are still standing. And it's still under the same management. Students of Catholic history are aware of the Church's well known & often well demonstrated ability to revive. The Catholic Church is just like the phoenix bird: once you think it's dead & destroyed, it rises again out of the ashes.