140,000 people are becoming Roman Catholic tonight in America.

The number across the world is estimated to be over one million.

Five years ago I was telling people: "There are going to be mass conversions to Catholicism in the next several decades," and people said I was out of my mind.

Now we have many dioceses that have more than doubled the number of converts they received last year. Some are up as high as 150% year-over-year. The pattern is consistent and it is global: people are coming back to the Catholic Church in stunningly high numbers.

Why? Because every other structure for making sense of the world has FAILED in the West.

Mainline Protestantism went liberal and entered a death spiral. Evangelical Protestantism is fractionalized into thousands of incoherent and conflicting denominations. Modern secular liberalism has offered an utterly barren materialist philosophy of life and its purpose, has worked to de-sacralize life and promote nihilism -- and has ultimately been the handmaiden of neoliberal capitalism and the confusing miasma of a "post-truth" world. Eastern Orthodoxy remains disunified, doctrinally confused, ethnically ghettoized, and unable to convene an ecumenical council for the last 1200 years. New Age and Eastern faiths remain obscure and vague.

What remains? The Catholic Church remains.

It's the only institution still in existence that has retained a coherent moral theology, a sound and well-reasoned doctrine, and a definite claim to Apostolic authority. It's teachings are consistent and clearly congruent with a functional Church that really does "make disciples of all nations." Its sacramental theology honors the actual teachings of Christ.

But most of all: the Catholic Church is not "making it up as it goes along."

Expect more of this. We are just getting started with a revival that is going to completely alter the course of the twenty-first century.