Reading about this item orthodox Catholic fundamentalism dress, I run into the text of the great theologian von Balthasar in which he a thorough critique of the texts of a famous founder of a Catholic group. I find worthy of reflection.
OPUS DEI: Catholic Fundamentalism
Protestants envy us many times that we Catholics by Rome did not exist in our Church irreconcilable factions in the case of the tragic divisions which they suffer. However, while this is true as regards our borders dogmatic, it's not about the different areas of spirituality, arriving at this point in a table similar to the Protestants. The first Christian thinker looked deeply alarmed the phenomenon of what today is called fundamentalism and gave him the surest diagnosis is still unsurpassed, was Maurice Blondel.
The strongest manifestation of fundamentalism is definitely the Opus Dei, of English origin, "a secular institute with thousands of members, mainly in the academic world and with a very large international student housing has many worldwide and a university in Pamplona. Closely linked to the English regime of Franco, has high positions in government, banks, publishing houses, magazines and newspapers (he founded or bought), and performs all over-even in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, a discreet and jealous propaganda activity. Membership of the Work is designed in a multiple and complex: from a wide circles outside intimate secrets to groups and cells. We reduce it to investigate spirituality and take to it the book The Way of the founder and president Joseph M.. Escrivá, and ask: Do you really think the author here to develop an authentic spirituality that is sufficient to Christian nurture a select body so powerful? Are you a small manual for senior English explorers? But English is also the genuine mystic Ramon Lull, John of the Cross and Ignatius of Loyola, full of resonances evangelical and valid for centuries. Here will also useful to quote some paragraphs to capture the "new tone" of this "way."
"Adocenarte? You, what the heap? If you were born to leader! Among us do not fit the lukewarm; - Energy! Without it Iñigo had not become Ignacio. God and daring! Be strong and virile. So you will be master of yourself first. And then, guide, leader, leader! ... you force that pushes, you drag your ejempIo, and your word and with your knowledge, and your empire - Marriage is for the kind of troops, not the staff of Christ - Longing for children? ... Children, many children and a light leave an indelible trace if we sacrifice the selfishness of the flesh - so I do not like euphemisms: the prudence and cowardice you call your "wisdom" is an occasion for God's enemies, empty brain ideas be wise to give tone and scale positions that should never climb, - And then, way up, with holy shamelessness, without stopping until you upload the entire slope of duty!; - Somewhat loud is your character, - Shut up, do not be "niñoide" - Men: Be a little less naive - Warlords! ... invigorates your will to God make you leader. Do not see how come the damn secret societies? Much obedience is needed, - When a lay teacher stands in the wrong moral easily: the laity can only be disciples, - The priest whom, is always another Christ - Love God and do not worship the priest ... is not possible. " Let's hear now
instruction in determining what should be the content of the prayer to God: "You write:" Prayer is talking with God. But what? " Him, about yourself: joys and sorrows, successes and failures, noble ambitions, daily worries ... Weaknesses! ". This means that this sentence is moved almost exclusively in the circle Narrow self, a self that must be big and strong, equipped with pagan virtues, apostolic and Napoleonic. What is needed above all, that is the contemplative roots of the Word "good land" (Mt 13, 8), what would be the target of the prayers of the saints, of the great founders, the prayer of a Foucauld, look what a useless here. So, hopefully that Opus Dei owns its own ground a spiritual reserves are quite different from the sample mean, which offers in the light of day. When the spiritual leader, the complete collection of flowers, it takes a couple of Lisieux roses for your bouquet, and are almost wilted, do not grow and may not hold for long in the vase. "You said you wanted to be leader," the suggestive question No. 931. Ah, no, Monseigneur, I do not think I would have said that! Despite his claims that members are free to work in their political choices (J. Herranz, Opus Dei and politics), it is undeniable his foundation is marked by the dictatorship, this is "the law has been formed."
equally serious problems arise here, not try to bottom-about "apostolic tactic" of the "Work of God" first, the relationship between "money and spirit." An example: Can I buy a newspaper, to be free, yet his team, to be free-writing and collaboration, leaving continue writing as before with the only condition to each number a little propaganda of Opus Dei? So it was with the Parisian magazine La Table Ronde, who formerly was so full of spirit and so exciting and so happen to other publications. Remember that the most beautiful magazines are those that were written (The Torch, Cahiers Péguy) or directed by an important personality ("Hochland, Muth and Schöningh, Esprit, Mounier and Béqguin) or at least reflect the spirit of a group free (Testimonianze, ll Gallo), an Order (Vie intellectuelle). Shop
spirit is a contradiction in itself. And what finally the method of recruitment, preferably ahead is to send well-meaning academics, influential and wealthy, then gather large groups of students and educated people, often without curdling yet to finish the network by choosing the most useful? We wish best cards on the table, we would like to hear, treaties rather than ecclesiastical law, the plain language of the Gospel and Columbian.
could write many forms of fundamentalism or foreign nationals, many gradations from the sidelines church to church instruments. The possible combinations of traditionalism, monarchism, legalism and military spirit, politics and high finance are endless. The problem is left standing, provided that these areas of values \u200b\u200b(many forms) can be of service to Jesus Christ, who has taken sin the world as "lamb" and not as a tiger who has proclaimed the doctrine of the Father from the wood of the Cross and not Ias professorships, who has loved his neighbor in a spirit of service and humility, simple and "tactics apostolic, and, above all, not looking at their own integrity, but, like the Samaritan, penetrated the enemy's borders.
Urs Von Balthasar, Cardinal and Catholic theologian.
Co-authored with Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI) of several books
Neue Zürcher Nachrichten-Christliche Kultur
November 23, 1963.
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