Listen to what Blessed John Paul said:
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think the wide circle of the American Society, or the wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. We are now facing the final con- frontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the an- ti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. This confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is therefore, in God’s Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously....
(The above was in a speech in 1976 to the Bishops in the USA)

(I am not sure where he said the quote below but I think that it was in Fatima)
"We must prepare ourselves to suffer great trials before long, such as will demand of us a disposition to give up even life, and a total dedication to Christ and for Christ … With your and my prayer it is possible to mitigate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it, because only thus can the Church be effectively renewed. How many times has the renewal of the Church sprung from blood! This time, too, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong and prepared, and trust in Christ and His Mother, and be very, very assiduous in praying the Rosary."

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen said ,
"Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious."--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1972 in a speech to the Knights of Columbus
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. Bella Dodd told the Archbishop that she had personally recruited into the priesthood between 800 and 1200 men who had no vocations.  Knowledge such as this was not easy for Archbishop Sheen. Yet it caused him to pray even harder.

Bells Dodd also testified before Congress in the 1950's about the activities of the Communist Party in the USA and in the Church.
http://learningmycatholicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/senate-internal-security-subcommittee.html