Can you read “the Signs of the Times” (Matt. 16: 3)? The last 40 years have been confusing, tumultuous ones for Catholicism. Seminaries emptied, priests and nuns left their vocations, people dissented from basic teachings, and children received poor catechesis. It didn’t used to be this way. What happened? To read this book is to understand what caused these profound and disturbing changes in the Church.