Iwish all those who find themselves concerned, depressed, befuddled, or angry at the present state of the Church could have spent July 3–21 in that city of saints, Cracow, along with my students and faculty colleagues in the thirty-first annual assembly of the
Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society
(TMS). Our students, who came from the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Georgia, Mexico, India, Croatia, Lithuania, and China, were a striking group of young Catholic adults. And their reactions to the nineteen days we spent together—in which they brought to the seminar and gave each other at least as much as we on the faculty offered them—suggested that there are in fact a lot of good things going on in Catholicism today: