Sound diagnosis …

… Restoration by Michel Houellebecq and Geoffroy Lejeune | Articles | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In order to save what can be saved, it would be necessary to break with the relativism that has been in vogue since the 1960s. Perhaps the Church would recover a bit of its splendor if it stopped wanting to be cool and taught once again the fear of God, without which there is no love. The same goes for the education of children: Parental authority has been undermined, with the same consequences.

Really: Read the whole thing.