A wave of American Catholic media and formation is reshaping young Catholics across Europe—and evangelizers saw it coming long before the institutions did.
Merci pour cette analyse. La Nouvelle Evangélisation chère à nos papes depuis Saint Jean-Paul II s’adapte aux canaux de diffusion de son époque.
Qui plus est, la sécularisation des pays européens (et je parle notamment de la France) fait que trouver un interlocuteur disponible pour les questions de Foi catholique est souvent tâche difficile.
Enfin, les structures existantes fonctionnent souvent à la manière dite bénédictine, sans jugement aucun : la paroisse est au centre d’un réseau bien établi avec les écoles privées catholiques, les mouvements scouts, les associations notabiliaires… Pour qui ne maîtrise pas les codes de ce milieu, il est souvent difficile d’intégrer ou de réintégrer l’Eglise par ce portail.
Cela constitue une question majeure : comment rendre l'Église accessible à ceux qui ne sont pas nés dans le « sérail » catholique ? Et encore une fois, il n'y a pas de jugement car il y a 1000 façons d'être à l'Eglise.
Yes,this is awesome news. I deepened my faith through online media--most notably through Church Militant (before their unfortunate demise). As the online movement grows it will also start to manifest itself in new ways in the physical world. For one, Catholics have to relearn how to build lasting institutions outside of the Church hierarchy. We need to build faithful communities--I call Catholic Shires--to raise large, intergenerational families, create trade guilds for jobs and housing, host Catholic festivals to evangelize, and train Knight Protectors (Eques Protectors) to keep us safe. Over time, with the power of exponential demographic transformation, the Church hierarchy will look very different (better) than today's.
Which faith was deepened, though? Church Militant was run by a man who should have never attempted public ministries with his background. Being a repentant pewsitter, glad to have Christ back in his life, should have been enough. By the end, it was mostly an unhelpful gossip organization aimed at American bishops. Christine Niles independently continues on the 'tradition" of less than edifying "need to know" information.
"For one, Catholics have to relearn how to build lasting institutions outside of the Church hierarchy. [...]Over time, with the power of exponential demographic transformation, the Church hierarchy will look very different (better) than today's."
This is inherently Protestant/modernist in ideal. Our Lord only protects His Bride, aka the Church hierarchy. There's nothing wrong with wanting to live in Catholic communities, as you mentioned. However, those develop, exist and fade as everything does on a fallen planet.
I will also offer that through this spiritually difficult era we have perhaps the best hierarchy that ever existed. Unfortunately, we just keep believing people paid to lie about Peter and the apostles, instead of just taking our Pope and bishops at face value.
We are now seeing the fruit of that tree. All of the irrational or unreasoned comments I get are by people who learned how to think that way by CMTV or one of its “spiritual children” apostolates. I was sounding the alarm years ago, “Watch, watch…wait and see!” But I was seen as the lunatic for saying so.
Merci pour cette analyse. La Nouvelle Evangélisation chère à nos papes depuis Saint Jean-Paul II s’adapte aux canaux de diffusion de son époque.
Qui plus est, la sécularisation des pays européens (et je parle notamment de la France) fait que trouver un interlocuteur disponible pour les questions de Foi catholique est souvent tâche difficile.
Enfin, les structures existantes fonctionnent souvent à la manière dite bénédictine, sans jugement aucun : la paroisse est au centre d’un réseau bien établi avec les écoles privées catholiques, les mouvements scouts, les associations notabiliaires… Pour qui ne maîtrise pas les codes de ce milieu, il est souvent difficile d’intégrer ou de réintégrer l’Eglise par ce portail.
Cela constitue une question majeure : comment rendre l'Église accessible à ceux qui ne sont pas nés dans le « sérail » catholique ? Et encore une fois, il n'y a pas de jugement car il y a 1000 façons d'être à l'Eglise.
Yes,this is awesome news. I deepened my faith through online media--most notably through Church Militant (before their unfortunate demise). As the online movement grows it will also start to manifest itself in new ways in the physical world. For one, Catholics have to relearn how to build lasting institutions outside of the Church hierarchy. We need to build faithful communities--I call Catholic Shires--to raise large, intergenerational families, create trade guilds for jobs and housing, host Catholic festivals to evangelize, and train Knight Protectors (Eques Protectors) to keep us safe. Over time, with the power of exponential demographic transformation, the Church hierarchy will look very different (better) than today's.
Which faith was deepened, though? Church Militant was run by a man who should have never attempted public ministries with his background. Being a repentant pewsitter, glad to have Christ back in his life, should have been enough. By the end, it was mostly an unhelpful gossip organization aimed at American bishops. Christine Niles independently continues on the 'tradition" of less than edifying "need to know" information.
"For one, Catholics have to relearn how to build lasting institutions outside of the Church hierarchy. [...]Over time, with the power of exponential demographic transformation, the Church hierarchy will look very different (better) than today's."
This is inherently Protestant/modernist in ideal. Our Lord only protects His Bride, aka the Church hierarchy. There's nothing wrong with wanting to live in Catholic communities, as you mentioned. However, those develop, exist and fade as everything does on a fallen planet.
I will also offer that through this spiritually difficult era we have perhaps the best hierarchy that ever existed. Unfortunately, we just keep believing people paid to lie about Peter and the apostles, instead of just taking our Pope and bishops at face value.
We are now seeing the fruit of that tree. All of the irrational or unreasoned comments I get are by people who learned how to think that way by CMTV or one of its “spiritual children” apostolates. I was sounding the alarm years ago, “Watch, watch…wait and see!” But I was seen as the lunatic for saying so.