Where do old controversies go when their day is past? Just to the memory hole somewhere, forever replaced with new controversies.
In my spring cleaning and getting my documents in order, I came across some stuff about "The Last Temptation of Christ," from the late '80s sometime. It was the big thing of that day that was going to destroy everyone's faith. There's the information, still as big as life, but you don't hear much about it anymore.
I guess everyone's faith, to the extent that they had it, somehow survived.