Fr. James Martin demonstrates:
We call it the Sexual Revolution, but now it's just the Age of Sex. That modern womenfolk have aborted pregnancies by the hundreds of millions, in addition to tens of millions dead from AIDS or ruined from a host of sex-related consequences has become a small price we're more than willing to pay for our libidos.
The jaded, nihilistic sense of self-worthlessness that has arisen from this sex ethic has left our generation beyond the point of faithlessness. That is why we so easily accepted the sudden notion that our worth in the eyes of the Thrice-Holy is largely dependent upon which demographic label has been affixed to us by the Leftist state.
These things are not problems that arose overnight. They are the product of a Church that veered left when it should have veered right in its dealings with the movements and developments in our modern age. And not just recently, but for decades; perhaps generations.
"They are the product of a Church that veered left when it should have veered right in its dealings with the movements and developments in our modern age." No. Put not your faith in princes -- nor in presidents, supreme court justices, senators, congressmen, or governors. The problem is not that the Church did not conform to the right, but rather that most of us (sadly including even the most prominent and powerful) have not been transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
ReplyDeleteOf course by right, I didn't mean political right. I could have - and perhaps should have - said veered one way when it should have gone another. The Faith of the Church has, of course, remained. But its leaders have, more than once in history, shown poor judgment at best. In past times, when the Church was the only game in town, or most were uneducated without many resources to expand their options, that was problematic enough. But the leadership's choice to accept so many modern premises while thinking it can discard the conclusions I fear has set it up to be in its current state, and so many Catholics (if polls are to be believed, most Catholics) accepting views that have nothing at all in common with the historical faith, despite how disastrous the new ideas they are embracing happen to be.
DeleteFair enough. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
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