Is it Jansenism? Or Christianity? by David Carlin

Father Murray to Newsmax: Eclipse Reminder of ‘Mysterious Creation’ of Universe, by Theodore Bunker

April 11, 2024

Love and Dignity, by John M. Grondelski

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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by Mattia Preti, c. 1640s [St. Louis Art Museum]

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing, April 11, 2024

David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Three Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.

Note: Be sure to tune in tonight, Thursday, April 11^th, at 8 PM Eastern to EWTN for a new episode of ‘The World Over.’ The Papal Posse – TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal, contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray, and host Raymond Arroyo – will discuss the new Vatican ‘Declaration on Human Dignity,’ as well as other recent developments in the Church, Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.

In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, many Catholics, especially young priests and seminarians, were imbued with the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” – a spirit that hoped to carry reforms and improvements of the Church well beyond the reforms and improvements actually designated by the Council.

I remember a young priest telling us from the pulpit one Sunday that the Church, despite having been in existence for more than 1,900 years, had never really understood the meaning of Catholicism until the arrival of Vatican II.

Now, this was a good priest, and he still is a good priest (even though he is now a rather old man), and he has been of considerable benefit to me personally. I think very highly of him. All the same, I have never heard a sermon more foolish than the one in which he told us that Vatican II first revealed the meaning of Catholicism – and I assure you, I have heard hundreds, if not thousands, of foolish sermons. ….

Is it Jansenism? Or Christianity? by David Carlin

Father Murray to Newsmax: Eclipse Reminder of ‘Mysterious Creation’ of Universe, by Theodore Bunker

Love and Dignity, by John M. Grondelski

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing, April 11, 2024

I remember a young priest telling us from the pulpit one Sunday that the Church, despite having been in existence for more than 1,900 years, had never really understood the meaning of Catholicism until the arrival of Vatican II.

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