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

Catholic Commentary on the News • July 2018 •

Father Jenkins and Tom comment on some of the recent events including: the new Superior General of the SSPX, Fr. Davide Pagliarani; Fr. Patrick Girouard’s sermon on the SSPX’s re-branding; Francis role in Ireland’s abortion referendum and his upcoming trip to the country; Francis surprise appearance at a Swiss Guardsman’s wedding; the strange design of the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, and ‘consecrated virgins’ no longer need be virgins in the Novus Ordo church.

In Memoriam, Mr. Ronald Tihista.