The dog that died

The blog has gone quiet for the past couple of weeks while your blogger has been on his hols in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Here is a photo of Vilnius Cathedral in the heart of the Lithuanian capital..

It has only recently become a cathedral again.

For the fifty years of the Soviet occupation, Vilnius Cathedral was a state-run museum.

Then Communism fell, the cathedral was reconsecrated and once more was open for worship.

It reminded me of a saying of G.K. Chesterton.

He said that on five occasions in church history it looked like the Church was going to the dogs, but on each occasion it was the dog that died.

Soviet Communism was a strong and viscious dog. It kept half of Europe in thrall for fifty years but in the end it was the dog, not the church, that died.