As a priest for 55 years, I submit that the principal cause of this decline is an uncertainty about religious tenets because of the estrangement of science and religion.
Mr. Rampe may be pale and rumpled and a tad pudgier than he prefers because of an estrangement from his gym, but he is not yet burned out; then again, he is only a year into the assignment of a lifetime.
But despite (or maybe because of) his estrangement from the establishment - and these days he is now more or less totally boycotted by the media - Dieudonne retains a wide appeal in France.
His charisma, intellect and articulacy were wasted, partly because of an estrangement from the media that meant the public had too little opportunity to hear what he had to say about Christianity.
Because I was once a reporter I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom.
However stories of estrangement and suicide lurk behind the smiles of 'happy' marriages, because if matrimony doesn't work out for these couples, they can't go back to the lives they used to lead before getting married.
This is a future of estrangement, resource waste and dysfunction.
A feeling of estrangement crept over their marriage.
The child is, after all, an artist of estrangement.
Where most documentaries prize clarity, this one attests to the power of estrangement.
They would remain married, although with periods of estrangement, until the end of her life.
