The sign of good Catholics would be, first and foremost, how they tried to love God with their whole minds and hearts, with their whole bodies and souls, and with their whole strength.
Without an interior life of love, prayer, sacrifice, and repentance, even sound doctrine can’t stop the moral collapse and spiritual bankruptcy in the Church.
While many priests and students of theology have been taught what to think about God, few are ever taught how to speak to him.
The poverty and humility of Christ is best understood not simply by contemplating his life after the incarnation, but by understanding what He gave up to suffer and die for us.
Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the poor in spirit…” Catholics seeking true RETVRN should start here.
Oceans of ink are regularly spilled on the liturgy wars and apparitions, but the contemplative prayer central to traditional spirituality is overlooked.
While many in the Church don’t know what to think about the Garabandal seers, there is no doubt that heaven has sent a steady stream of warnings through our Lady.
Now that Catholicism is seen as a philosophy of life rather than a call to ongoing spiritual transformation, a simple intellectual reorientation seems to suffice as initiation for new members.
All too many modern Catholics seem to think that the only hope for renewal in the modern Church is to find it in the liturgy alone, and they seem to be blind to the importance of deep personal prayer.
Just as the Catholic Faith has been reduced to little more than an intellectual philosophy of life for the clergy—all head and no heart—the same happened to the laity, who depend on them for their spirituality.
If God’s Son was truly to be made a genuine human being, made of flesh and blood, then of course He must have a genuine human mother of flesh and blood too.
The only way to evangelize the modern pagan world today will be through the family.
Pope John XXIII’s decision to ignore the message of the third Fatima secret and instead call an ecumenical council has had dire consequences.
A new form of religion has come into being— masquerading as Catholicism—in which selfishness has been institutionalized. This new religion has called itself Synodality.
Today’s prevelant spirituality—and the discernment process that is at its heart—has an uncanny way of canonizing the prevailing ideas and opinions of those who take part in it
With the demise of the traditional, God-centered spirituality that once thrived in the Church, new secular missionaries rushed in to introduce their man-centered sociopsychological therapies of one form or another.
Moral Spirituality replaced Mystical Spirituality in the Church, which led to disastrous consequences we still live with today.
The dramatic destruction of authentic Mystical Theology was short-lived, but an anti-mystic legacy lived on in subsequent centuries down to the Second Vatican Council, affecting all who took part in it.
When Pope John XXIII should have been calling Catholics to repentance, prayer, and sacrifice, he decided to call a Council to do the impossible.
