Christ-Centered Catholic Spirituality: Decline and Fall and the Second Franciscan Spring
A continuing look at the history of Catholic spirituality.
A continuing look at the history of Catholic spirituality.
Before the Holy Spirit could do in the apostles what He had been able to do in Our Lady, a prolonged preparation and purification would have to take place.
The ramifications of a Council convened without “the one necessary thing” left the Church defenseless against the onslaught of Modernism, sprung from within.
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.