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Lorene Collins Salvation Redefined Issue: na | Online: Dec 18, 2003, 12:37 | Other items by this author Overview - Adapting the language of Faith - Perplexed and disturbed souls - Thought-reform meets Come to the Father - Parents take action - The General Catechetical Directory - The evaluation - Summary of critiques - The sex education battle - 20t Century confessors of the Faith - The bishops' verdict and more...
Following the Second Vatican Council, modernists in Belgium, Holland, France and elsewhere gave us what is called "The New Catechetics"-sometimes labelled "The Creedless Catechetics." Cardinal Ratzinger once referred to it as "the misery of the new catechetics." Dietrich von Hildebrand said that it poisoned the souls of children with a distorted presentation of Christian revelation, and called it "a diabolical game, a terrible irreverence against God and innocent children." Its arrival in Canada was ensured when the Canadian bishops authorized a Canadian Catechism in 1966. ... Come to the Father soon spread across Canada, though it did not teach the Ten Commandments, the precepts of the Church, the Sacrifice of the Mass, Original Sin, the Immaculate Conception, or the infallibility of the popes. - From the Foreword by Msgr. Vincent Foy "Finding little support from the hierarchy or the Church bureaucracy, parents dissatisfied with religious teaching in the schools began to form chapters of Catholics United for the Faith. (Lorene Collins became head of its Canadian branch.) Through such groups, Catholic parents from coast to coast, who were worried that their children were not being taught the Catholic faith, got together to make formal presentations to the hierarchy. There was a great deal to complain about. At no period in the Church's history, Mrs. Collins writes, had the Mass been defined as the Canadian Catechism defined it: "a meal in honour of the risen Jesus where we gather to hear the Word of God." In 1974, French-Canadian Bishop Leo Blais, retired bishop of Prince Albert, SK, summed up what was being taught as follows: "No sin; no need for a saviour; the whole structure of Christianity collapses." -From the review by David Dooley, Catholic Insight, April 2003 Price:$ 19.95 Shipping in Canada:$ 2.50 © Copyright 1997-2006 Catholic Insight Updated: Dec 3rd, 2006 - 14:48:37 Top of Page |
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