Having begun thee process pf publication prior to the CDF's recent condemnation of the LCWr, I will be attempting to update my chapter on religious life in the Smole of Satan in the Temple of God to include the curial findings. For now , this article proves informative!

It would appear that the Smoke is clearing from the Temple, in light of this interesting article found on a great website for Catholics, Catholic Exchange ....

The world, the flesh, and the devil will always love their own, and will always hate us. As Jesus once predicted, they hated me, they will certainly hate you. …  Read more...

Finally. the LCWR has been exposed for what it really is- an apostate, heterodox group cut off from the vine read the good news here.

I am not an avid listener to NPR, but yesterday a Catholic journalist, Ross Douthat, interviewed on the Diane Rehm show promoting his Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics   (reviewed here) impressed me very much with his analysis of how faith has gone wrong in the U.S. He opines that the sexual revolution, the left wing slant mainline protestant Christianity& divisions within Catholicism have perverted Christianity. Douthat also argues that the "health & wealth gospel" or "feel good" Evangelicalism has harmed the faith, rendering us a more pagan nation, coupled with the "find God within you" preached by Oprah & the New Agers. I hope to follow Ross using the means of social communication, and familiarize him with my view of his findings as one more manifestation of the spiritual warfare taking place in our nation.

One of America’s premier orthodox catechists, Fr. Alfred McBride, O. Praem., delivered a talk at the Catholic University of America in the summer of 1969 on the transcendence of God. He noted that his students, budding nuns, priests, seminarians, brothers and laymen, seemed “content rich” but pedagogically destitute. Fr, McBride correctly discerned that a more efficacious catechesis could be had by both an immanent dimension to complement the transcendent dimension, in faithfulness to Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (and later recommended by John Paul II). As he recalled, Fr. McBride unfortunately assumed that his students had grasped and given consent to Catholic teaching (when they had not), and sensed that worldly thinking had invaded their minds: After three years teaching my human dimensions course, I realized that secularity had intruded into the consciousness of many of these students. A number of them had succumbed to a modernity that rejected history and tradition. What’s ...

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