To Weaken the Church

How could we (if we were aimed at such a goal) harm the Catholic Church? What would be the most effective way to damage her?

I ask this question because it offers a unique glimpse into the workings of the Church and her strength. If we know the way to destroy something, we know that something's strength (You truly harm something by taking away that which is its strength, rather than hitting at any weaknesses).

The simplest and probably most effective way one could actually harm the Church would be to destroy all the books. This seems a bit counterintuitive, at least by the world's perception of the Church, yet it strikes at the power of the Catholic Church.

The one subject which has spawned more written works than any other is Christ and his Church. For a thousand years all great works were Chritological, from Augustine to Dante. A great fatih has been laid into the very foundations of our culture and the only way one could truly weaken it would be to remove that foundation.

Society today is very much trying to do this, driving man away from books and toward film, TV, and the internet. Because these mediums have not grown under Catholic auspices, they are foundations of another culture, the culture of death, essentially. If we wish to strengthen the Church here, we have two options: either draw people back to the written word or infuse the visual culture with a Catholic world view.

We can recreate this world. We just need to put some effort into it.