About this episode
The episode discusses the Catholic Church's failure to seize opportunities presented by the modern world and the importance of embodying the seven lively virtues.
By David Warren But first a note from Robert Royal: We had a site failure yesterday morning, which our tech people resolved quickly. And many of you somehow connected and donated anyway. If you wanted to, but didn't, today is the last day of our formal mid-year fundraising. So you still have a chance to add your support to The Catholic Thing. I'm prejudiced, but how can you not? Now for today's column... Among the most distressing things about the Catholic Church is her (really, OUR) failure to take advantage of the many opportunities that the "modern world" accidentally offers us. We have made ourselves smaller and more inconsequential by choice, chiefly by assuming that the times are unpropitious. In fact, the times cry out to be rescued. And this, particularly, in an institutional way. There is a task, quite distinct from that of environmental lunacy, or economic lunacy, or any others of the fashionable lunacies that afflict the world. And this task only occasionally requires a bit of imagination or courage. Why do we run, when either of these qualities are asked for? For that matter, why do we run when any of the seven "lively virtues" – i.e. the seven holy remedies for the…
Topics covered
- Catholic Church
- modernism
- virtues
- fundraising
- spirituality
Keywords
- Catholic Church
- modernism
- lively virtues
- fundraising
- spirituality
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