"Avoid Evil, Do Good"

He understood that the divine economy affirmed man's need to build secure dwellings in the midst of the instability of a damaged creation; knew that God willed man to use every reasonable and moral method to avoid evil and do good. But at some point every soul was put to some ultimate test, each must turn and face its eternal foe in a definitive struggle between radical terror and radical faith. And in such combat ordinary human strategies would always prove to be ineffective; moreover, by relying on them, one could easily be misled into a state of false security--and thus be doubly defeated,

Of course, he was called to teach, protect, warn, feed the flock with sacraments and Scripture--that would never change. But if Father Ron and the other "prophets" were correct, the present situation was truly extraordinary. it might be no longer merely a case of individual struggle with evil. It could very well be the moment in history when the Church and the anti-Church, the Gospel and the anti-Gospel, entered the final phase of confrontation.--Michael O'Brien, Eclipse of the Sun, 732-733.