“Observing that the bishops and, above all, the Successor of Peter fail to maintain and transmit faithfully and in unity the deposit of faith contained in Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, I cannot help but think of Article 675 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: ‘Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. More discomfiting is the discovery that poor religious instruction in the early years can no longer be so easily remedied as: “Ask your priest.” Even aside from the steadily dropping number of priests in active ministry, the dismal training that most have received over the past fifty years continues to show itself in moral and doctrinal errors now taught at every level of the hierarchy – embracing even the See of Peter, as was recently pointed out by Cardinal Eijk of Utrecht: Amid legitimate blame placed on the schools, the media, the culture, etc., parents still bear the task of disposing their children to the Christian life and salvation and in truth, many have neglected their sacramental vow to beget children and raise them in the Faith. In the midst of an increasingly toxic surround, orienting parents’ lives in every regard toward this principal formative task of achieving heaven has long been minimized or outsourced to “professionals,” and we continue on generations of miserable results.

The causes of such an era are many indeed, although the long abdication of Catholic parents seems to factor highly among them. On the one hand, there is a certain tragedy implicit here, as this question wouldn’t need asking in any normal, healthy period of the Church’s life. Having itching ears and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth,īut will be turned unto fables. (2 Tim 4:3-4)īecause without doubt, the most frequent question we receive at Whispers is: “Where Can I Learn The Faith?” Accordingly, minor edits have been made to this article.įor there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine īut, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, In light of such deviation from the universal ordinary magisterium on this issue (as reflected in dozens of catechism spanning more than five centuries), we have modified our evaluation of the 1992 catechism. A few weeks later, Pope Francis announced a redaction of the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church for the inclusion of a manifest error regarding the liceity of capital punishment. For the most promising move toward traditional catechesis we have seen thus far, check out the Tradivox project: The following article and resource originally ran on July 8, 2018.

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