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Copyright 2006 James Arraj.
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| The Church. Forty years
after the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church remains diminished, disoriented, and
deeply divided. The Council. The council was the catalyst, but not the cause of this change. The Unconscious. Historical and theological explanations have been given for this transformation, but they are not complete. Our task is to look behind and beneath them in search of the hidden forces that have shaped the church. A brief look at extraordinary phenomena will alert us to the type of forces that are at work, but our task is much more difficult, for it is to glimpse how similar unconscious forces influence religious life, the new movements, the church’s teaching on birth control, the papacy and many other aspects of contemporary Catholic life. This journey will entail looking at the institutional church with a critical eye, but to read these criticisms as a denial of faith would be to misunderstand them. What is at stake is the purification of genuine faith from the counterfeits it has become intermingled with. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Devils and the Depths of the Unconscious 7 Heavenly Apparitions 10 Speaking in Tongues 12 Imposter Popes 13 Chapter 2: The Rise and Fall of Thomism 15 The Genesis of Aeterni Patris 15 Modernism 16 La Nouvelle Théologie 19 Vatican II 21 Chapter 3: Vatican II 23 The Golden Age 23 The Council 24 Chapter 4: The Great Exodus 28 The Will of the Superior is the Will of God 28 The Reaction 30 The Exodus 31 Chapter 5: Experimental Christian Communities 33 Report of Spontaneous Groups in the United States, 1971 33 A Typology of Experiments 33 Interpretative Tools and Analysis 35 Postscript 39 Chapter 6: New Movements, Old Wine Skins 40 Sword of the Spirit Communities 40 Regina Laudis 41 Focolare 41 The Neocatechumenal Way 42 The Legionaires of Christ 43 Opus Dei 44 Chapter 7: The Apotheosis of the Pope 48 Purple Papal Praise 48 The Pope and the Melkites 49 "I am the Church!" 50 Papal Power and the People of God 51 Chapter 8: Humanae Vitae 53 The Papal Birth Control Commission 53 The Reaction 56 Infallible? 57 Chapter 9: The Counterreaction 60 The Enigma of the Peasant 60 Henri de Lubac 64 Joseph Ratzinger 65 Chapter 10: The Restoration 69 The Story of Humanae vitae continued 69 The Offensive of 1988 70 |
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