We have much more than the world. We each have a spark of the divine, an internal guide that we can hear in any time and place if we will but listen.

And thus we see the advantage of having a living Tradition. Our generation need not produce saints for the Church to have saints. The saints of old speak as surely as the saints of today. It is the exemplary people - or at least people in moments of the exemplary - who form and craft Tradition. We cannot keep all evil out, but it is the very reality of the living Tradition that allows us to whether ages of evil and come out on the other side.