tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post3630251950143442390..comments2024-02-02T12:19:39.504-07:00Comments on V for Victory!: More Catholic Examinations of Conscience: The Syllabi of ErrorsAnita Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-88548199922726854462013-03-03T19:47:31.883-07:002013-03-03T19:47:31.883-07:00George, in a year that that already hit us with so...George, in a year that that already hit us with some huge bolts from the blue, who can say? Many things may happen that seem unlikely...Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-74911686440506113502013-03-03T18:11:59.947-07:002013-03-03T18:11:59.947-07:00A good list Anita. I agree with Jay in liking the...A good list Anita. I agree with Jay in liking the last one in particular.<br /><br />One thing that I had hoped for was a syllabus of errors on implementation of Vatican II some time this year. It doesn't seem very likely, at least not soon.George @ Convert Journalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11230803204895454672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-60245227390510307682013-02-04T22:17:21.607-07:002013-02-04T22:17:21.607-07:00Glad to help, NBW.
I want to add also that, sin...Glad to help, NBW. <br /><br />I want to add also that, since modernists are good at sounding plausible, and specialize in fine gradations and subtleties -- a slight shift here, a tiny emphasis there, a minute change in contour all around -- it is critically important for us to know our faith with <i>precision</i>. A modernist will take a passage of Scripture, for example, and focus on the human author of the divinely inspired Word: he will start with the culture in which this human author must have grown up; then begin explaining about how elements of the passage must have furthered some agenda that is attributed to the human author -- until the passage becomes some sort of political manifesto, rather than the inspired, inerrant Word of God, and therefore not perhaps worth taking all that seriously. <br /><br />It is important to study our Faith and learn it, and use memorization. Memorization has fallen into disrepute in recent decades, without justification: it is the things we memorize that come to our rescue in times of crisis and distress, and those are the times we need our Faith the most. The Baltimore Catechism lends itself well to memorization, and it is both concise and precise, which is why persons infected with modernism treat it with contempt. Aquinas is also a good safeguard against error; and for spiritual reading, you can't go wrong with St. Francis de Sales or St. Alphonsus Liguori, or Ven. Fulton Sheen.<br /><br />And of course, in addition to study, there is prayer, which we must on no account neglect if we are to have light.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-36017107465469816452013-02-04T20:16:38.885-07:002013-02-04T20:16:38.885-07:00Yes it does, thank you so much. And eloquently sai...Yes it does, thank you so much. And eloquently said as well!NBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067593594408371005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-89203830160692924522013-02-04T18:18:55.587-07:002013-02-04T18:18:55.587-07:00I guess I would say that in essence, modernism den...I guess I would say that in essence, modernism denies the supernatural. It is firmly rooted in the material world, shunning beauty and mystery and accepting as real only that which is gray, mundane, flat-footed, jejune and pedestrian. Thus, modernists view everything through the lens of secularism. They prefer secular, political solutions to problems to spiritual ones. You will frequently find modernists ginning up alternative explanations for the miracles described in Scripture -- classic example: the Feeding of the Five Thousand was a "miracle of sharing," rather than a divinely worked wonder. You will also find modernists designing churches that look like warehouses, so as to obscure the fact that a Catholic church is a place where one encounters mystery. And of course there are the liturgical abuses perpetrated by those steeped in modernism, which obscure the mystery of the Holy Mass.<br /><br />Modernism is ultimately a denial of all that the Catholic faith teaches; but since modernists don't want to come out and say so, they cloak themselves in a smokescreen of confusion. With modernists, everything is "shades of gray," never black or white. They abhor flat declarations of doctrine couched in plain language. Therefore it has been well said that modernism is the heresy of obfuscation. One priest, preaching on the subject of Thomas Aquinas, said that hatred and denigration of the Angelic Doctor is an unmistakable sign of a modernist. Modernists dislike Aquinas because he is "too clear."<br /><br />Hope that helps.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-14062144441177755722013-02-04T14:17:30.993-07:002013-02-04T14:17:30.993-07:00Thank you for a very insightful post! I have a qu...Thank you for a very insightful post! I have a question for you; how does one best explain Modernism without going into a very lengthy explanation which will confuse the other person. I tried to explain it to someone and couldn't put it into words very well. NBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067593594408371005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-76971363943666570652013-02-03T17:24:56.039-07:002013-02-03T17:24:56.039-07:00Thanks, Jay!Thanks, Jay!Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-23825124868946865422013-02-03T17:08:03.360-07:002013-02-03T17:08:03.360-07:00Excellent! I particularly like your concluding sta...Excellent! I particularly like your concluding statement. I've never really thought about it this way, and it is a very powerful perspective.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09927474235629912604noreply@blogger.com