If you read the first blog on modernism from a few days ago, you might begin to see its comeback in the seminary today. Lots of young priests want clear catechism answers. They love the logic of objective truth. No need to soul search for glimpses of God. God is clearly in God's place, and you know where that is. God has all the answers and gives them to you through the hierarchy. What a great life free of anxiety and ambiguity. It isn't real, but a lot of us live lives that are not real. Are we not consumers of things that clearly define us? We have become our "stuff!"
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The early 20th Century gave us writers like James Joyce, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, so when Dorothy Day walked Chicago's streets she experienced Sinclair's Jungle and Thomas Merton experienced sin. Today's young priests and deacons must experience sin in the shelters, it is crucial for the reformer and the rebel. Sin; evil, greed, despair and violence allow us to experience love and forgiveness and God. Otherwise a life of faith is not possibe. At least that is how I see it and why my catechism gathers dust. Do you agree?
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