The Fatal Folly Of “Recognize & Resist”

A return to the email inbox on this episode of What Catholics Believe.  Many topics are discussed:  • Is the clerical pedophilia today in the church unprecedented?  • How the Recognize & Resist (R&R) is poisonous.  • Are canonizations infallible?  • When do we have to follow the teachings of the church?  • When is the church infallible?  • Why Jansenism and how dangerous it is for traditional Catholics.  • What to make of the Syro-Malabar Rite which has no prayer of institution and no tabernacle.  • A word on abortion.

What Is Spiritual Direction?

On this episode of What Catholics Believe, What Is Spiritual Direction?, Fr. Jenkins: answers what is the role of a spiritual director and confessor; contrasts a spiritual director with the focus on God to a therapist who focuses one’s attention towards oneself; recommends five books on the spiritual life (see links below);  answers a viewer’s email about the Knights of Columbus, Francis worship, and where to seek the traditional Latin Mass;  answers another email concerning how to respond to someone who has never seen any abuses in the Novus Ordo and believes any abuses that exists are being eliminated;  and briefly touches on the rebranding of the SSPX.

Book Recommendations
Introduction To The Devout Life
Treatise On The Love Of God
Three Ages Of The Interior Life
Light And Peace
The Spiritual Combat