“The Wasteland” demonstrates that T.S. Eliot did not embrace the death and decay of the world of the poem, but rather was on his journey out from it to the glory of resurrection.
Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ at 101: A guided glimpse of the abyss
A bishop’s challenge to ‘We used to be Catholics…’
Wrestling with and struggling to understand church teaching makes sense to me, but abandoning Jesus and his Eucharistic presence is not the answer.