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A Little Hatred Might Save Yet Us, by Philip Primeau – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Philip Primeau’s work has appeared in Catholic World Report, Aleteia, Catholic Exchange, and Homiletic & Pastoral Review, among other places. His devotional poetry is found at gladsomelight.substack.com. He may be contacted at primeau.philip1 -at- gmail -dot-com.

 

We are always asking the question, “What went wrong with the Church?” There is an answer too rarely considered: we abandoned hatred of the world.

“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” (Colossians 3:2)

Philip PrimeauWe are always asking the question, “What went wrong with the Church?” There is an answer too rarely considered: we abandoned hatred of the world.

Hatred of the world? Likely, we have heard the phrase before. It reminds us of a musty, bygone moment when nuns thrashed their students with rulers and glum pewsitters put pebbles in their shoes during Lent. In other words, it is a semi-mythical figment, an embarrassing bit of deviance that crept around Catholicism until 1962, roughly. …

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