Father John Perricone
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And how is it that this can be applied to not only difficulties, indeed crises in our culture, but crises in the Catholic Church? Over the past 30 years of writing, there have been no limit to those crises. I attempt to identify them, to analyze the crisis, and then help Catholics to apply
the unchanging teachings of the Catholic Church of those crises. So perhaps with that as armament, they will be able to not only achieve some peace of conscience, but also have the wherewithal to go out to their friends, Catholic friends and non-Catholic friends, and articulate a proper solution
to the difficulties bedeviling both the church and society today. So each and every one of my articles is kind of a chiaroscuro. On the one hand, I am talking about the darkness that's enveloping us from every side, but then pointing out the light of faith.
And how is it that we ought to understand these dilemmas and confidently move forward? That I would say inspires every single line that I write both in the last 30 years and forward.
in their understanding of the true faith. And hence, bishops and even many hierarchs have been complicit in that fracture. And rather than being, as Saint Paul talks about, a certain trumpet to Catholics, so they fully understand the unchanging nature of that truth,
They have tended to listen to these fractured understandings of the truth, which, by the way, had been percolating in the Catholic Church for, oh my goodness, the last hundred years. And it has brought a certain amount of...
doubt into the Catholic mind, certainly doubt about how they are to live their faith, how they are to live the moral law.
And sometimes when they seek clarity, they have nowhere to turn except to outstanding and singular bishops like Bishop Athanasius, who, by the way, is properly named because he very much like the man after whom he is named was a voice contra mundum. He is a voice against the world, but a sane, sound, measured voice
And every time he speaks, and every time any good Catholic sees him speak, they also see a radiant sanctity emanating from him. Indeed, doesn't he remind us of what Leo the Great must have sounded like, and Ignatius Loyola, and Charles Borromeo, and Robert Bellarmine?
We have in our midst, in Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a true jewel that can... He's manna for us in the desert, leading us to a new promised land when, please God, more clergy, higher clergy and lower clergy like me, will feel confident about proclaiming the true and undeniable truth of the Catholic faith.
unprecedented crisis that the church finds herself in. He has been named by the church to be her common doctor.
Most Catholics recognize Aquinas as his title as angelic doctor, appropriately, because he writes so extensively upon the nature of angels. But Mother Church awards him a title even more significant than that and calling him the common doctor. That simply means that when Mother Church wants to seek a deeper, fuller, and more profound understanding of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
They ought to go to St. Thomas Aquinas for a proper understanding. That's why he has such critical importance to the church over 800 years, but particularly today. Unfortunately, in the past 60 years, our pseudo-Catholic intelligentsia has set about creating a blackout on St. Thomas Aquinas. I suspect they recognize that if they allowed him
the chance to come into the mind of the Church, into the mind of Catholics, their whole experiment that they were attempting of so-called adrenamento would come quickly to an end. It would collapse under the force of St. Thomas' teaching. He is our thick wall, he is our garrison against false ideas.
No wonder why the enemies of the Church, especially at the Council, wanted to closet him, and indeed they almost did so. If not now, for the new Renaissance of St. Thomas Aquinas, which is occurring because of Dr. Krasnowski's press, because of his works,
all of them and all his many efforts to say nothing of other efforts throughout the world such as the Dominicans and the House of Studies in D.C. and that whole eastern province that are reintroducing to the world of scholarship the almost perfect understanding that we could have of a Catholic faith through the prism and lens of St. Thomas Aquinas. I cannot overestimate how important he is
I've written extensively on that. Chesterton talked about it, and I have often quoted him. And he talks about the fact that of all the horrible religions, the most horrible is the cult of the god within.
What does he mean by that? He means that, as the modernists indicated, we simply recognize religion as this elan, this inner principle that guides us. Essentially, it's my feelings that guide me, and this replaces objective revelation.
Now, trust it to police that quote by saying of all the horrible religions, the religion of the God inside of us, of the God within, means that when Mr. Jones speaks to the God within him, he is merely speaking to Mr. Jones.
So I think that one of my campaigns has been mounted against this. And the whole notion of so-called spirituality in the church, and if you look at many leftist Catholic newspapers, you'll see that they are replete with offerings of spirituality centers.
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