Category Archives: Reform of the Renewal

Fr John Zuhlsdorf: Holy See on use of psychology in priestly formation

Follow Fr. John Zuhlsdorf’s commentary and discussion on the abuse of psychological screening by the Lavender Mafia to keep REAL MEN out of the Catholic priesthood:

Philip Lawler: The Faithful Departed - The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture

Excerpt from Dr. Mirus:

Reasons for Hope

Phil Lawler argues persuasively that hope does not lie in what has already been done. The net result of the initial measures taken following the sex abuse crisis is that “all priests were now treated like members of a suspect class, while bishops preserved all their dignity and privileges” (191). Instead, the author argues that the solution must match the problem. The problem is precisely the problem posed by Augustine. Therefore, the solution must begin with a frank and contrite admission that the bishops themselves have administered their dioceses from a position of spiritual bankruptcy. Only then can the necessary renewal begin, an interior renewal which causes our shepherds to once again view the Church as the body of Christ, utterly dependent on the truth and grace of the Savior—a Church which will in fact always be hurt by complacency, worldliness, secular processes, political management techniques and, yes, lies.

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf and His Blog

. . . Such sobriety mingled with virtue is the stuff of saints.

And by way of corollary, the recovery of spiritual sanity will have humor as one of its signs. For humor is among other things the perception of imbalance as imbalanced and the appreciation of incongruity as incongruous.

Self-absorbed observers are not observers at all, and so they tend to humorlessness; they lack a platform in reality from which to measure the lack of measure around them.

In the present life of culture, and certainly in this moment of the Church, extremists on the left and on the right have a common inability to laugh at themselves.

Healthy jokes are to them like a strange sound frequency to a dog: they turn their heads, they look distressed, but they do not laugh.

Russell Shaw: Nothing to Hide

“As the premier Catholic communications professional in the United States, Russ Shaw is a longtime critic of clericalism, excessive secrecy, ‘happy talk’ and spin control in Catholic culture. He’s also an articulate and engaging writer with an unparalleled record of service to the Church. Nothing to Hide is a provocative, important book that explores the boundary between appropriate confidentiality in the Church, and the kind of secrecy that cripples Christian community life. It’s a must-read.”
+Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver

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