Feeling Disconnected From the Church? by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, June 30, 2023

I am out of the country as I begin to write this, and my time is generally not my own, so we shall see how far I will get with an idea that surfaced already several days ago when I was checking our own news stories. The idea is that, owing to the constant infidelity and confusion we encounter in contemporary Catholicism, it is sometimes very hard to feel spiritually connected with the Church. Two news stories particularly reminded me of this while I was otherwise happily minding my own business.

The first story was Vatican releases working document for Synod on Synodality, along with Phil Lawler’s commentary: The Synod working document: a recipe for confusion. Here we see realized our worst fear about the synodal process, the fear that it will be used as one more point of leverage to move the Church toward infidelity, especially the infidelity that arises not from a rejection of clear teaching but from endless confusion about what the Church really teaches about anything, most notably (of course!) in the realm of that most intimate area of human reality—the truth about sexual morality. …

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