[Frank Sheed]

This article is a real bombshell by Cardinal George and a MUST read by all Catholics!

[Frank Sheed]

CATHOLIC BOMBSHELL ALERT! What an article!!

[GSlob]

Sprituality is best learned from a highly spiritual person. Who's better to teach it than ted kennedy who - at blood level of 86 proof - is spiritual to the point of spontaneous combustion? [and for all those who still doubt - his high spiritual level makes him bactericidal, besides other things. Try to remember the last time he fell sick with any bug].

[marshmallow]

He covers all bases, doesn't he? From the leftist neo-Protestant wing of the Church to the far right "more Catholic than the Pope" movement.

Cardinal George has been rather unwell recently, with bladder cancer. I'm wondering if the Four Last Things are ever more prominent in his thoughts.

[Nihil Obstat]

good article, seems like he has a feel for what is needed, but what will he do about it?

[Frank Sheed]

http://thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com/2007/01/schools-of-spirituality-by-cardinal.html

New Liturgical Movement with comments...

[Tax-chick]

bttt

[Jaded]

Matthew

[NYer]

Many writers who claim to be Catholic make names for themselves by attacking truths basic to our faith. Without the personal integrity that would bring them to admit they have simply lost the faith that comes to us from the Apostles, they reconstruct it on a purely subjective, individualistic basis and call it renewal.

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How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

Pro-Eligendo - HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
18 April 2005

[livius]

Wow! Excellent article! I always thought Cdl George was somewhat of a disappointment; that is, fundamentally orthodox, but once he moved into a position of power, not really shaking things up much. However, I don't live in his diocese, so maybe he has made more changes than I know and I'm being unfair in these words.

He's absolutely right and I wish, I wish, I wish that all the bishops would take these words to heart and lead a "Catholic reeducation program" for everyone in the US, clergy included. Many people are, as he said, knowingly Protestant in belief without the honesty to just leave the Church and join some one of the 40,000 Protestant sects. But others are well-meaning and simply vastly ignorant in a way that could not even be dreamed of 35 years ago.

[SuziQ]

Ping!