So
it is that because of the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, many Catholics do not practice their faith to the point of
standing out from those who are ignorant of Christ. In approaching the vexing
questions of modern society, too many Catholics take positions based on a
liberal-conservative spectrum, rather than on the teachings of Jesus Christ
which come to us via His church. Only genuine conversion, metanoia,the fruit of evangelization, will change this reality, allowing Catholics to experience the joy of faithful discipleship. No ideology may substitute for
real personal conversion. In essence, metanoia means to
question one’s own way of living, to start to see life through God’s eyes, and
turn away from conformity to this world. Genuine
conversion predisposes us not to see ourselves as the measure of all things,
but to a humility that trusts ourselves to God’s love, which becomes the
measure of all things. This was the central teaching of Vatican II: a renewed
call to the faithful to strive after holiness, which means doing the Father’s
will in all things, empowered by His grace.
It comes as no surprise to the thinking Catholic that since the onset of the sexual revolution we have had to face an ever-increasing array of sexual problems. One has only to think of the tremendous increase in the number of illegitimate births and abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, opposition to censorship of pornography (especially on the Internet), and the resulting sexual addiction (in some extreme instances resulting in murder). Consider too the tremendous blows to marriage and the family done by adultery, the battle over the homosexual lifestyle in the United States, Canada and Europe (now to the point of the redefinition of marriage under the law); the increasing incidences of sexual harassment, child pornography on the Internet, Internet predators, the collegiate "rape culture", and of course, the divorce rate. Read the following and weep (or pray): Online harassment of women at risk of becoming 'established norm', study finds Australian re...
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