Sensible Catholicism

Don't criticize people when they are objectively wrong - it's essentially the same as violent dismemberment. Nonsense! How prideful we are, that we think we are above being called out for our wrongdoings. It doesn't matter who is criticizing you, if you're wrong, cop it!

The Church is not a playground for spoonfed princes and princesses.

The Church is God's, and He wills for the salvation of souls, through our cooperation with His graces.

The next blog post will be about "cultural Catholicism" - exploring how the culture surrounding traditionalist communities has been permeated by the world.

This is rather different to how Catholic Rome, in its earlier centuries - with all its decadence, was able to permeate the secular culture and cause mass scale conversions, with a certain name coming to mind - the great st Jerome, the man who converted to Catholicism after an indulgent youth, and went on to translate the Latin Vulgate. His assistance to the pope of that time allowed for the only Church approved translation of the Bible.

Unfortunately for many cradle Catholics, their attitudes towards converts is seemingly one of suspicion and hostility; a lack of exhortation, encouragement, and even warranted rebukes - in their pride and isolationism they forget the worth of a good convert, and ironically (and most hypocritcally) appear to lead rather worldly lives themselves. This indocility through intemperance is a product of the 60's, namely the baby boomer generation, and a lack of discipline for youth and adolescents following it.

It is so obvious and so appalling, that I believe if someone resembling st Jerome, st Paul, or st Augustine were to exist today, the indolent, indocile cradle Catholics would shun them at best, and crucify them at worst. The emotional and financial investment of families and those who have grown up in the faith do not allow them the sense of superiority I believe some so readily maintain.

The blog post will also explore the faults and attitudes of converts, and how the distinction between cradle Catholics and converts is only made by us modern faithful, and how the isolationist, obnoxious, indolent and indocile attitudes are not at all supported by Sacred Scriptures - namely the Gospels and the epistles.

On suffering, sin, and demons - St Teresa of Avila, St Mary Magdalene, St Alphonsus Liguori, Machiavelli