Hope in the Face of . . . Seeming Doom

The message of the Gospel is a message of Resurrection – of Easter. It does not deny darkness. It does not seek to cover-up Good Friday.
We are always pointed toward Hope – toward Easter.

In the words of the beloved Pope John the XXIII:

We feel we must disagree with those prophets of doom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand. . . In the present order of things Divine Providence is leading is to a new order of human relations which, by our own efforts and even beyond our very expectations, are directed toward the fulfillment of God’s superior and inscrutable designs.