Veritas et Sapientia-How To Live Traditionally In Modernity

Mandeville, LA – The advantage of us moderns is that, living in the wake of so many varied forms of Christian life, we have this vast field of spiritualities already there before us with which to compensate for our own narrowness, to remind us of all that we need to complement our own partiality,·on our road-to wholeness. Which is why I’m chary of the possible resonance of “a modern catholicism,” with the potential echoes of triumphalism and self- sufficiency residing in the adjective (added to those which have often enough resided in the noun!)

The point is not to be a “modern catholic,” if by this we (perhaps semi-consciously and surreptitiously) begin to see ourselves as the ultimate “compleat catholics,” summing up and going beyond our less advantaged ancestors (a powerful connotation which hangs over the word ‘modern’ in much contemporary use). The point rather is, taking our modern civilization for another of those great cultural forms which have come and gone in human history, to see what it means to be a Christian here, to find our authentic voice in the eventual catholic chorus. – Charles Taylor, A Modern Catholicism

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Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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