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Living In the End Times Does Not Give Us a Pass, by Dr. Jeff Mirus – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, April 04, 2025

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.


Even before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger had a remarkable insight into the spiritual crisis of the modern world:

Creation is defined as dependence, origin ab alio [from another]. Its place is taken by the category of self-creation, which is accomplished through work. Since creation equals dependence, and dependence is the antithesis of freedom, the doctrine of creation is opposed.1

Indeed, it ought to be clear by now that a fundamental rejection of our status as creatures lies at the root of a great many human problems and discontents, as well as misguided solutions. A primary example is transgenderism. Perhaps above all other faults, contemporary transgenderism is a radical denial of the profound reality that we are creatures—that we owe our very being and personal identity to a Divine Creator. …

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