Generation X and the Return to Christian Orthodoxy [A Surprise Trend]

Zenit/EWTN ^ | April 29, 2003 | Colleen Carroll

[TradicalRC]

I could hang out with you guys.

[Pyro7480]

I think Ockham is the primordial source of the problem.

Richard Weaver said the same thing in 1948 with his timeless conservative classic, "Ideas Have Consequences."

[Salvation]

**This was posted quite a while ago.**

I did a search and even searched the older articles. Didn't show. Makes me wonder if they have purged some stories.

Now I'll have to go back and look again!

[Coleus]

I was told that there are a lot of young people with large families at the Latin Mass Churches. Seems they are searching for the traditional and orthodox roots of the Church.

[Coleus]

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[Desdemona]

Max, why is your glass always half-empty?

yes, a whole generation was poorly catechized and fed incorrectly, but we've started turning to the traditional on our own - no help from the elders. This isn't a good sign?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Remedy]

Many suffered ill consequences from baby boomer experimentation in morality and religion, and they want their own children to experience a more stable life. They crave stability for themselves, as well. But sociology only gets us so far in this analysis. In the end, each of these young adults tells a story far richer, and far more complex, than the story of the pendulum swing.

WORLD Sept. 2, 2000: Remarkable Providences: Fear of the Lord

Perhaps the most observant current viewer of Christophobia is not a Christian but an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Daniel Lapin wrote in his book, America's Real War, "The educational bureaucracy expects the state to accommodate every possible bizarre cultural mutation and lifestyle, but finds prayer at graduation an intolerable and fatal compromise of state neutrality toward religion." Why else would such illogic reign if fear were not involved?

Some Jewish leaders would point to the Holocaust to say that their fear has an objective basis, yet the faith that animated Hitler was not Christianity but a racist version of Social Darwinism's emphasis on survival of the fittest. And the reason Hitler could put his faith into practice is because of a powerful government apparatus; although the left hates to admit it, National Socialism was one type of socialism.

That's why Rabbi Lapin's fearless statement makes sense: "Those of us who venerate freedom, be we Jewish or Christian, be we religious or secularized, have no option but to pray for the health of Christianity in America. No other group possesses both the faith and the numbers sufficient to hold back the ever-encroaching, sometimes sinister, power of the state."

Our Secularist Democratic Party (Long, Important Analysis) <> Fascism, corruption and my 'Democratic' Party <> The Decline of a Nation

[Salvation]

Way to go!

[Salvation]

**I was told that there are a lot of young people with large families at the Latin Mass Churches.**

This would be a big plus! And also a source of vocations!

[Hermann the Cherusker]

JPII is/was a student of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, who was the last REAL Thomist.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Some Jewish leaders would point to the Holocaust to say that their fear has an objective basis, yet the faith that animated Hitler was not Christianity but a racist version of Social Darwinism's emphasis on survival of the fittest.

You should read some time the book "Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism". Also maybe "Die Grundlagen des Nationalsozialismus: Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung von katolischer Warte".

[huskyboy]

How does Plato fit into all of this, then? Many an advocate for the new (world) order like the idea of a ruling class controlling the masses. Look at the dis-United Nations, with all of this talk about "multilateral action" and "broad-based support" that had to be in place before Iraq and Afghanistan. That's just the beginning.

[Salvation]

Here are some similar threads:

Catholic archdiocese of Washington [D.C.] has largest ordination class in 14 years

Roman Catholic friar community growing

Retiring priests pose problem for the Archdiocese of Boston

[Salvation]

Oops, that was the wrong list!

THE NEW FAITHFUL: WHY YOUNG ADULTS ARE EMBRACING CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY

Vatican to reinforce Catholic orthodoxy, Pope's advisors say traditional values have weakened

Keeping faith: Catholic college, students reject mainstream America - and the mainstream church