The Remnant: 50 Years After Vatican II, Are You Still Catholic?

From The Remnant Newspaper today: A must read by Susan Claire Potts:

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3914-50-years-after-vatican-ii-are-you-still-catholic-take-the-quiz

The Remnant: Remembering the Women Who Educated America

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3912-come-back-my-sisters-remembering-the-women-who-educated-america

I know some nuns, and I honor them. They are lovely women, dedicated and devout, but it’s not the same. Their commitment appears more individualistic now, even though they belong to an order. Apartments, cars, and laptops don’t resonate in our hearts the same way as wimples and veils.

The culture would be lifted if they returned. Amazing things would happen. The world would be so much better. More refined. More respectful of the feminine ideal. Just think of it. Sisters teaching. Sisters living in community.  Sisters singing their office. Each one exercising her talents to the best of her ability, reaching for the Kingdom of God, pushing, prodding, cajoling the half-awake student to something higher, something better, something permanent and true.

We would all have something to admire and emulate. Something that would ignite the flame of holiness, the desire to seek the summit of perfection. Something that would remind people that Heaven can, indeed, begin on Earth.

What we have Lost

Fr. Mark Pilon: The Fruits of Soft Discipline

Fr. Mark Pilon posted this essay today on The Catholic Thing Blog:

When I was in the seminary in the early 1960s, we were indoctrinated in the notion that the harsh discipline of the Church over the centuries would be a thing of the past following Vatican II. Supposedly, none of this harshness had ever really worked to safeguard the teaching of the Church, so a new softer approach was needed. 

A half-century later, the results are in – and it’s indisputable that the softer approach didn’t work. In addition to the exodus of priests, nuns, and religious, there’s been a massive loss of knowledge among ordinary lay people about what the Church teaches. And no wonder, since there’s been little effort to make Church teachings clear in the flight from the bad old days of “harsh discipline.”

To continue, click on the below link:

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/10/26/the-fruits-of-soft-discipline/

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