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Taking Scandal – a hindrance to “all advance in the spiritual life” But it used to be talked about, and can today still be found if one knows where to look.
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The great treasury of instruction on how to live as a Catholic, has simply been abandoned by the wayside. The purpose of the Christian life was understood until recently to be the seeking of holiness and Christian perfection, especially in ways that would sharply diverge from the ways of the pagan or secular world. And, as Winston Churchill could have told them, with each level of prostration the demands for more appeasement grow only more strident.Īt this point, about two weeks after the death of George Floyd, the impression one gets from the news is of a western world LARPing the old post-apocalyptic movie Escape from New York, while carrying on a creditable impression of a mass Maoist “Struggle Session” for crimes against The Revolution.Īmong the many things to lament about modern Catholicism is the memory-holing of the spiritual directives that were once commonly known – and preached about. Even worse, perhaps, were the bizarre spectacles of politicians, celebrities and various media parasites groveling, crying and kneeling in paroxysms of contrived guilt before the demands of the neo-Maoist left. The questions, “Is it a sin to take offence?” and “Why is this cultural phenomenon a danger to souls?” took on new force at the start of this strange explosion of whirling mayhem, riots and violent demonstrations staged by the extreme left. Indeed, in the age of the internet it is regarded almost as a moral imperative and the odd practice of Christians of the past to simply forgive offences is not remembered even well enough to mock. Porter said, “Well of course.” And we moved on.īut to the world outside the peace and moral orderliness of traditional monastic life the notion that we may morally take offence at something another person says or does is taken as every bit as obvious. I mentioned that I was preparing an article: “It’s about how ‘taking offence’ is a sin.” As if it were so obvious as to be not even worth elaborating, Br.