Wow! It's been over a week since I last posted and I'm so sorry. Hope all is well with you!
Today, I'd like to add to the post below entitled "What It Means to Be Catholic." I don't want to wear this topic out, but I also want to add to what has already been stated that gives what I have said some support. Ignatius' "Catholic World Report" has an excellent article on Cardinal Newman and liberalism entitled "Cardinal Newman's Hour." You will find that though some of our more dissenting authors and theologians look to Newman for support, he actually devastates their liberal positions, chastising them for holding to such aberrant views that have such moral and eternal consequences. Here's an excerpt that will certainly grab your attention:
The Church … regards this world, and all that is in it, as a mere shadow, as dust and ashes, compared with the value of one single soul. … [S]he holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, so far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Could you imagine a bishop or priest nowadays saying anything close to this? Perhaps, though unlikely. Here again is the Blessed Newman on the nature of liberalism as a heresy:
That truth and falsehood in religion are but matter of opinion; that one doctrine is as good as another; that the Governor of the world does not intend that we should gain the truth; that there is no truth; that we are not more acceptable to God by believing this than by believing that; that no one is answerable for his opinions; that they are a matter of necessity or accident; that it is enough if we sincerely hold what we profess; that our merit lies in seeking, not in possessing; that it is a duty to follow what seems to us true, without a fear lest it should not be true; that it may be a gain to succeed, and can be no harm to fail; that we may take up and lay down opinions at pleasure; that belief belongs to the mere intellect, not to the heart also; that we may safely trust to ourselves in matters of Faith, and need no other guide, – this is the principle of philosophies and heresies, which is very weakness.
Take time to read this article and glean for yourselves what impacts you. Feel free also to share in the comment section below. For more on the same topic, read the explosive tract from the 19th century Liberalism is a Sin found on the EWTN website. It's a lengthy article that cannot be read in one sitting. I suggest putting this site in your "Favorites" and refer to it. Dr. Sarda does a splendid job breaking down the error of "Liberalism" and why it is listed on the Church's Syllabus of Errors. Perhaps you'll see how pervasive this deadly contagion is in our midst.
May your reading bear precious fruit, loved ones, and "St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness of the devil..."
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