This past weekend I travelled to Columbus, Ohio for the Coming Home Conference, a yearly event put on by a Catholic Church Ministry (http://www.chnetwork.org/) for those from other Christian churches who desire full communion with Catholicism.
While travelling, really as a sort of modern pilgrimage, I, of course, prayed for safety, protection, and for the trip to go smoothly.
No delays, safe take-off and landing of all four aircraft, and a truly restorative weekend of Christian commitment centered on the Eucharist.
The fact that so many former Protestant clergy are joining the Catholic Church is in many ways a hidden blessing as the Catholic Church will now be flooded with M.Div. degrees, Th.M.'s and even a few Ph.D. converts.
All of this is good, but my hope and prayer is that Opus Dei, the real, institutional Opus Dei prelature of the Pontiff in Rome, will increase their activity among this group called the Coming Home Network. Without such gentle pastoral guidance on the part of truly Orthodox Catholicism the end result would have been a continuing of the problems of institutional Catholicism. Problems such as pro-choice Catholics (abortion and euthanasia), dissent from Vatican teaching by the Pope, and that strange hodge-podge of psycho-therapeutic heretical catholic culture that is the Western portions of Catholicism. To be sure, Catholicism is a step ahead of mainline Protestantism, but whenever I hear prayers of petition for the 'mentally ill' it makes me wince due to how corrupt parts of the Church have become. In previous generations it was SIN that we battled. Now, Catholic priests, Christian "counselors," et al have tried to replace THE COUNSELOR, the Holy Spirit with this pseudo-Freudian Nazi Catholicism. Parents are told to 'medicate' their kids to achieve emotional 'balance.' Friends are always looking over their shoulders to see if anyone might call them 'mentally ill' (believing in things like purgatory after all does come across as a bit 'nuts'! :-), and at worst parents even turn over their own children to be institutionalized for supposed 'psychiatric problems.' Whether it was Nazi Germany or Fascist Chile such corruption on the part of institutional Catholicism (especially as influenced by the Jesuits, that heretical, pedophile 'order' of priests) will now come back to hurt all of us who bear the name Catholic CHRISTIAN. Long live the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, Opus Dei, Cursillo, the Charismatic movement and ALL who are LOYAL to historic CATHOLIC TEACHING and have not fallen prey to the various snares and temptations of a false rapprochement and irenicism with modernity. May the Jesuits again be excluded from the ranks of truly Catholic Christians as their fallen order of priests have done tremendous damage to our beloved Church with their dissent, their abuse of Cardinal Ratzinger, now our Pontiff, and of course, the Jesuit epistemological and heretical fusing of Christianity with a modern worldview. Come Holy Spirit, Counselor and heal the wounds afflicting our beloved CHURCH . . .
Love in JESUS CHRIST in the power and fidelity of the HOLY SPIRIT,
Rob J. King, concerned Catholic
Maybe it is time for the Jesuit order itself to undergo some much-needed 'counseling' sessions.
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