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Rupnik, Rigidity, and the Deepening Sham in Rome, by Christopher R. Altieri – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Fr. Marko Rupnik (Image courtesy of the Diocese of Rome)

By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report, February 22, 2024

Christopher R. Altieri is a journalist, editor and author of three books, including Reading the News Without Losing Your Faith (Catholic Truth Society, 2021). He is contributing editor to Catholic World Report.

It shouldn’t be hard to distinguish spiritual direction from psychological torture, spiritual friendship from coercive sexual abuse and violent manipulation, spiritual formation from moral plagiarism.

Several years ago, when I was living in Rome, a confessor told me: “You are too rigid.” I don’t recall precisely what year it was, but it was toward the beginning of the Francis era and “rigidity” was still a new buzzword.

Maybe the fellow thought I really was being too hard on myself, or something. I don’t have the slightest recollection of what the matter may have been, but I know I wasn’t beating myself up about anything. It was a run-of-the-mill, number-and-kind confession that shouldn’t have taken five minutes. …

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Rupnik, Rigidity, and the Deepening Sham in Rome, by Christopher R. Altieri

If Peter Is the Rock, Where is the Pope? by Phil Lawler

Did Fulton Sheen Prophesy About These Times? by Joseph Pronechen (Feb. 4, 2019)

By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report, February 22, 2024

It shouldn’t be hard to distinguish spiritual direction from psychological torture, spiritual friendship from coercive sexual abuse and violent manipulation, spiritual formation from moral plagiarism.

Several years ago, when I was living in Rome, a confessor told me: “You are too rigid.” I don’t recall precisely what year it was, but it was toward the beginning of the Francis era and “rigidity” was still a new buzzword.

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