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"… hold fast to the traditions which you have received." II Thess. 2:15
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this parish how he would classify
birth control, as a mortal or venial
sin, he answered, 'as neither. ' 'And
abortion?' I asked. He said, 'That
all depends. '
It seems a good motive justifies any
action. Certainly we can rationalize
good motives for about anything we
by do, with a little concentrated ef-
Msgr. Paul F. Marceau fort. Euthanasia has a good motive
and, i f you carried the same idea
far enough, you could put all un-
happy people in the state of grace
and execute them, with the good mo-
To WHOM SHALL WE Go? tive of sending them to Heaven where
they'll be happy.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, formerly Bob and I feel as you do that we are
America's number one enemy of Commu- in the age of false Christs and pro-
nism, broke his long silence several phets but, under the circumstances,
months ago when, in an address to where does one go for true Catholic
doctrine?
the Fourth Degree Knights of Colum-
bus in Miami, he strongly suggested Certainly, Catholic parents no long-
that they stop financial support to er can go to the pastor because
Catholic parochial schools because either he has been brainwashed by
these institutions no longer are the powers of "Renewal," or he has
teaching the children the Catholic been bypassed by the Diocesan Direc-
religion. Quite naturally some of tor of Education. The "educators"
our readers may have missed this are the clerical gentlemen who
news item. Needless to say, it re- slipped the Baltimore Catechism out
ceived little notice in our con- of the school without the knowledge
trolled diocesan publications. or consent of the pastor. And these
(the "educators") are the priests
Of course, this is not exactly news who have substituted Humanism for
to those parents who are deeply dis- Religion in our schools and CCD
turbed by the failure of parochial classes. When subversion came to the
schools to teach their children the pastor's attention, he exclaimed:
fundamentals of the Catholic faith. "The bishop should hear about this!"
The Baltimore Catechism has been Then he was informed that the bishop
banished from all but a few of them already knew—and approved!
where religion has been displaced by
a God-bypassing Humanism. We could A pastor whom we knew was admonish~d
fill pages with the many complain~s by his bishop for making a pulpit
we have received because of this statement that "sending your child-
substitution. ren to a Catholic school rto longer
is a guarantee that they will be
Here are quotations from a letter taught sound Catholic doctrine." The
written by a mother who had been pastor admitted making the stat7me~t
converted to the Catholic Church a and added, "You know that thi~ is
few years before "the changes": true." To which his bishop replied,
"Yes, it's true, but the people
I ponder the dilemma of whether to should not know this~ –,…
continue the children in CCD classes
or to try to do our own religious But the people do know! When the
teaching at home. Not one of the bishops assembled, a few years ago,
kids' CCD books has mention of for their meeting in San Francisco,
either the Ten Commandments· or the four organizations of Catholic lay-
Sacraments. A priest in Milwaukee men, Catholics United for the Faith,
referred to the Bible as a fairy
tale and, when I asked a priest of – over – 3.
The National Federation of Catholic used to be, could accomplish its
Laymen, Parents for Orthodoxy in task with minimal effort and cost.
Parochial Education, and Catholics Improvised classroom space would be
for the Restoration in Education of needed to provide instruction ac-
Doctrinal Orthodoxy, presented their cording to age and grade level of
anxieties to their shepherds. The the children. There are plenty of
National Federation of Catholic Lay- competent men and women who could
men came right to the point when qualify as catechists or teachers of
they declared: "Time has run out for religion. This should be no great
Catholic Education in the United problem, but in the matter of cate-
States today. The system can no chism too many adults seem to foster
longer justify the prime purpose of an inferiority complex. Yet the
its existence when children are de- mother who wrote the letter, quoted
prived of sound Catholic doctrine above, went out and bought a Balti-
and, according to the bishops, they more Catechism and she and her hus-
themselves cannot find competent band prepared their little boy for
theologians to decide what is and his first confession and First Holy
what is not Catholic doctrine." Communion. Experience has demonstra-
ted that it would be necessary to
Thus far, no words of encouragement follow a strict and familiar class-
have come from the bishops. Having room routine with roll call and
gone through channels and received check on absent students.
no help, what are Catholic parents
to do? Another consideration is the com-
plete full time elementary and se-
condary school. Some of these
There are two steps, both painful schools have been operating these
and both necessary: past few years. They have all the
advantages dreamed of when our paro-
1. Remove Catholic children from all chial school system was called into
classes, whether school or CCD, existence by the Council of Balti-
wherein their Catholic faith is more — a complete primary and sec-
endangered.
ondary Catholic education. However,
2. Provide adequate religious in- since such complete schools would of
struction outside of such class- necessity depend on the free will
es. offerings of the parents, financial
The first can be accomplished imme- and administrative problems are not
diately. The second requires prayer- hard to foresee. At a time when both
ful consideration and planning. public and Church supported schools
are facing financial problems, the
risk in maintaining private institu-
Some parents, well grounded in the tions would be great.
faith, are equipped spiritually and
intellectually for giving adequate
religious instruction in their When our parochial school system was
homes. Now, don't tell us that this still in its glory and remained
cannot be accomplished. Your writer faithful to its purpose, repre-
lived through his early childhood sented the greatest free will con-
far from any Catholic school. But tribution to education world
his wise father taught him so well had ever known. It served its pur-
that he knew the answers in the pose faithfully, up until the close
Baltimore Catechism by the time he of Vatican II. We must remember that
had reached the third grade! Bute- we owe our Catholic faith to the
ven in such cases, some outside help sacrifices of our immigrant fathers
and classroom work will be of great who founded a practical working sys-
value. tem for Catholic education. In doing
this, they enjoyed the leadership
What can be done by groups of par- and help of their pastors and bish-
ents working together? Certainly, a ops. We don't.
school of religion, such as the CCD
– continued on page 6 –
4.
received the welcoming embrace of
Pope Paul himself. What greater en-
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dorsement could it ask? It would ap-
pear to be the glorious climax of
Vatican II Renewal.
To the traditional Catholic, how-
Fr.Robert McKenna, OP ever, outside the new mainstream of
Pentecostalism, a number of doubts
and difficulties lie in the path of
"the Spirit." For one thing, how
does the Charismatic Movement differ
from old-fashioned Protestant Re-
vivalism? To be sure, the tent is
PENTECOSTALISM missing and the hysteria of the
"Holy Rollers" may find some re-
straint in the "Praise God!", the
open-armed "Alleluias", the holding
Pentecostalism is sweeping the Cath- hands, and the embracing of the
olic establishment. (By the word charismatics, but essentially it is
"establishment" we mean the legally the same old substitution of emotion
recognized organization.) Not only for faith.
the laity in large numbers but many Secondly, why does the "Spirit" ap-
of the clergy too are becoming in- pear to restrict His "outpourings"
volved in the movement — now more to these gatherings outside the
commonly called the Charismatic churches and apart from the Mass or
Movement. (The word "charism" refers other liturgical functions? If there
to special and extraordinary gifts can be such a thing as Catholic
of the Holy Ghost, like prophesy and Pentecostalism, why is it never man-
speaking in foreign tongues.) The ifested in the approved, public wor-
Charismatics or Pentecostals are ac- ship of the Church, and especially
customed to gather in "prayer in the Mass when Christ Himself is
groups" apart from a church or li- immolated on the altar? What spirit
turgical service, where, after con- is it that apparently wants Catho-
certed prayer and (sometimes, any- lics to forget the notion of an or-
way) the "laying on of hands," the ganized, hierarchical Church and to
Spirit is supposed to manifest Him- put their faith in supercharged and
self by an "outpouring" similar to superficial emotional orgies, and to
that experienced by the Apostles on make of religion an informal, if not
Pentecost and other groups of early purely personal, affair? Or is it
Christians who were suddenly given simply that the average Catholic
the gifts of tongues, prophesy, or church-goer is not select enough and
other charismatic grace. Not that too unsophisticated for the charis-
everyone at a meeting or gathering matic graces of the Holy Ghost?
allegedly receives the Spirit in
such an extraordinary way, but all A third doubt: What has become of
share in the exuberant joy that the Sacrament of Confirmation? Since
these manifestations evoke. when is the Holy Spirit bestowed by
the laying on of laymen's hands
Pentecostalism is nothing new, ex- rather than (or in addition to) the
cept in Catholic circles. There have bishop's? Or are we merely to under-
long been Protestant groups claiming stand that, while the administration
the genuine charismatic experience, of the Sacrament is limited to bish-
but now — belatedly, it appears— ops, the charismatic gifts them-
Catholics themselves are becoming selves may come through laymen–
initiated to it. Indeed, after 10 just like Holy Communion. Apart from
years of the blossoming movement, doctrinal doubts involved in such a
the American bishops themselves have position, it is certainly to Satan's
been won over, some of them offi- advantage to de-emphasize the or-
cially approving and even becom- dained priesthood along with the in-
ing ardent advocates. Pentecostalism stitutional Church.
has even penetrated the Vatican and – continued on page 7 – 5.
6. In any case, who shall do it? The
TO WHOM SHALL WE GO, cont'd responsibility is clear: It is up to
the parents. Either they make any
Now we can better understand the old and every sacrifice to keep their
proverb, "You never miss the water children Catholic or they face the
until the well goes dry." Our gener- horror of complete loss of faith by
ation received the faith, by the those children. We must think. We
must pray. Finally, we must ACT.
grace of God, through the Baltimore
Catechism, whose teachings were the NEWSNOTES, cont'd from page 2
extention of the holy and doctrinal
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n "cahoots" with the others seized
y the "Spirit"—all, possibly, for
he benefit of unsuspecting newcom- is to sin against this virtue. Just
rs and neophytes? Is the speaker of as to be deficient in true religion
tongue really saying anything? is a sin, so is it a sin to be in
excess of what God and the Church
have ordained and what Catholic cus-
nd strange, certainly it is, that tom has confirmed. Such excess, as
hile the Catholic Pentecostals are St. Thomas teaches, is superstition .
.ndoubtedly among those who find the
ew Mass in the vernacular "more
eaningful," they evidently find the Indeed, the subtle and devious de-
nintelligible gibberish of a char- emphasizing of the Church itself in
smatic "tongue" still more meaning- the current Charismatic ferment bor-
ul. Ironic, to say the least, if ders on heresy and may well be—we
ot poetic justice! All in all, predict it will be — the stepping-
atholic Pentecostalism is not above stone to occultism, where Satan him-
he suspicion of being a contradic- self is God. Certainly Pentecostal-
ion in terms. Good will is no sub- ism and occultism are growing apace,
titute for sound doctrine. side by side, and that fact alone is
suspicious.
ar be it from us to deny the possi-
ility or even the historical fact So we see two opposed movements in
f charismatic graces. They are in- the ranks of American Catholics to-
eed a part of Catholic teaching, day: the Charismatic Movement and
ust as is sanctifying grace. But in the Orthodox Roman Catholic Move-
n age of wholesale corruption, both ment. The one is a movement ever
~thin the ranks of the Church and further away from Catholic Tradi-
ociety at large, it behooves us tion, and the other a movement back
ore than ever, as Scripture cau-
ions us, to "test every spirit" and
to that Tradition. The one –rs
spreading like a wildfire; the other
ee "if it be of God." And since, as seems but a seed. The one bids fair
matter of fact, the devil stands to be the horrible specter dragging
uch to gain by the present Pente- the Church to its ruin, while the
ostal fever, we of the Orthodox other, we are humbly confident, will
.oman Catholic Movement see in it prove to be its providential preser-
ot a genuine rebirth of the char- vation.
smatic graces — so conspicuous in
postolic times for the confirmation
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