From Father Brendan McCarthy re Thomas Groome.You are probably aware of the conferences held in St. John's last spring which were in the "capable" hands of a former priest from Ireland, Thomas Groome. I sought to instruct some confreres on the identity of this man and the absolute futility Futility See also Despair, Frustration. American Scene, The portrays Americans as having secured necessities; now looking for amenities. [Am. Lit.: The American Scene] Babio performs the useless and supererogatory. [Fr. of having him address priests and laity LAITY. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by law, but is, merely conventional. on the subject of Catholic Education. Subsequently I wrote the enclosed en·close also in·close tr.v. en·closed, en·clos·ing, en·clos·es 1. To surround on all sides; close in. 2. To fence in so as to prevent common use: enclosed the pasture. letter to the St. John's paper, The Monitor. It was not published. I enclose it here.... The "experts" in Ottawa who have been responsible for so much nonsense published by way of supplying a "religion" course to our youth, are at it again. Vast sums will be spent and then recuperated by charging exorbitant prices for the same old "reheated" modernism that was the trade mark of so many of their previous publications. As an example of the type of nonsense our young people were supposed to absorb I am sitting here looking at the cover of the Year Six text--two teenagers, one male and the other female, evidently ecstatic as they admire their T shirts bearing the heresy heresy, in religion, especially in Christianity, beliefs or views held by a member of a church that contradict its orthodoxy, or core doctrines. It is distinguished from apostasy, which is a complete abandonment of faith that makes the apostate a deserter, or former , 'GOD BELIEVES IN ME." No one told Bishop Frederick Henry Frederick Henry, 1584–1647, prince of Orange; son of William the Silent by Louise de Coligny. He became stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands upon the death (1625) of his brother Maurice of Nassau. , who introduced this volume, that God cannot believe anything, even to oblige the Canadian bishops. I wonder what our smarter students thought of this nonsense Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in 1997, "... intelligibility in·tel·li·gi·ble adj. 1. Capable of being understood: an intelligible set of directions. 2. Capable of being apprehended by the intellect alone. is also an element of the liturgy, and for this reason the Word of God must be well read, interpreted and explained.... Above all it is not something that new commissions think up again and again." Those among us who care for the Church should be in earnest about praying for an increase in vocations, and hope, if our prayers are answered, there will still be a seminary seminary Educational institution, usually for training in theology. In the U.S. the term was formerly also used to refer to institutions of higher learning for women, often teachers' colleges. where orthodoxy prevails. God and Mary continue to bless your work, and may Catholic Insight become more widely known, more deeply understood, and more visibly part of our daily lives. Clarenville, NL P.S. I am now in my second year of retirement; "we who thought the old men queer, are now the queer old men" (Chesterton). |
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