The stars are fading.... that would mean ice ages, death of plant life etc etc etc. I rationalise it as follows:
On the subject of Fading Suns... someone suggested it was metaphysical, that idea occurred to me after I wrote the original message. You could say that Gods flame is fading rather than the physical nature of the stars themselves, this would allow life to go on but spiritualism is fading s the pancreators light is not reflected onto his/her believers. This fits in nicely with the church, as it would be them that would see this mostly, which gives them extra power etc. It also means that something really is wrong with the way the universe is going, at least in the pancreators eyes.
Other suggestions were that the end of the galaxy guess has been dropped from 100,000,000 to 50,000,000 years. The church then leapt upon this for propaganda purposes and played it up as a divine effect. All it really was, was a recalculation of the end of the universe.