Having just completed True Devotion to Mary, I ran across this on the Fr. Aiudan Nichol's Christendom Awake webpage, which has elucidated certain points from Montfort's handbook on spirituality
How might the Devil seduce one into viewing divorce, abortion, euthanasia, adultery, gay marriage) as included within the scope of Christian love. In Novak's penetrating analysis , "it would be positively un-Christian to think ill of that "abomination." Bigotry??
Father John Parsons serves a parish in Dickson, Australia, and writes regularly for both religious and secular publications in that country. He penned this piece back in 2002-it is a fruitful read, as we are only beginning to see the Council implemented as it was intended...
Having written a chapter entitled Libido , exerpts of which are searchable on my blog, one of my sources has just written extensively on the impact of the sexual revolution on souls.
I have noted Ross Douthat's recent work on religion in the United States , much of which is corroborated by my own research. Catholic World Report has just reviewed it! I have it on summer reading list.
A turning away from the teaching of Catholic doctrine in favor of experimental liturgical activity and social protest prepared the way for the application to catechesis of the malevolent concept of “ongoing revelation” under the leadership of Gabriel Moran. For disciples of Moran, God was to be sought in the modern world, from which it follows that catechesis should be centered on finding meaning in one’s lived experience, an approach which was said to be authoritative following Vatican II. The following characteristics give indication of neomodernist inspiration in catechesis after the Council: · The prioritization of inquiry over the handing on of the Deposit of the Faith, wherein students under the catechists’ direction explore the meaning of their own experience; the net result of this method was to downgrade the bishop from the role traditionally assigned him as chief catechist in his diocese in deference to the “professional” expert more ...