Paul Mankowski, S.J. - What Went Wrong? | Catholic Culture Audiobooks

[@gdion92]

Good reading choice, James! Thank you. Makes so much sense.

[@johnmckeron3663]

Excellent podcast on what went wrong in the Church’ and one of the core points Paul made was getting away from the monastic deep prayer life ‘ a foundation for everything else ‘ the other is a lot of compromised clergy ‘ blackmail in the Church ‘ which explains the silence of these clergy in the midst of terrible sexual ‘ predatory behavior’ and I do believe what I heard recently that at least 80% of the hierarchy are compromised in some way

[@Go_for_it652]

The fault dear Brutis is not in the stars but in ourselves.

[@RandomThoughts77777]

Interesting thoughts but thankfully he is a little too pessimistic. Seminarians and young priests of today are generally sincere.

[@CatholicCulturePod]

Well, this was given in the early 2000s

[@johnjon1823]

I liked Merton's 7 Storey Mountain so I bought some other books of his. They were all crap MHO. Then there was his odd Eastern involvements and the like.

[@CatholicCulturePod]

I've always been a bit suspicious. Maybe I'll read The Seven Storey Mountain someday.

[@johnjon1823]

@@CatholicCulturePod It's a great book of his original conversion which is why I bought other books of his, but he had lost it in those books. They were kind of lefty oddball crap as I recall, he got involved with Eastern monks, not Christian Eastern, like the Asian type. As I recall he died while on kind of a visit for a seminar or something over in maybe Korea? Apparently, killed by a short in an electric fan. Could have been worse, old grasshopper went out in a worse way, and I think he died maybe in Korea too? Not sure. He denigrated 7 Storey mountain later. Which I thought was nuts. I think he thought he became more sophisticated in his understanding later, but I found him seeming to me only marginally Christian if at all. Really sad.

[@gtaylor178]

St Andrew and St James were just as real as these men, the difference with St Andrew and the Fr Jimmies is that St Andrew had the faith and was not leading a double life.