The Pastoral And Moral Crises That Lie Ahead
By FR. MARK A. PILON (Editor’s Note: In the essay below, Fr. Mark A. Pilon, a theologian, says that what we are witnessing today, following the publication of Amoris Laetitia, is a radical adoption of the absolutizing principle of subjective judgments of conscience and private interpretation of all moral norms. This article is reprinted from Catholic World Report with permission. All rights reserved. (www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/5316/the_pastoral_and _moral_crises_that_lie_ahead.aspx) + + + There has been a moral and pastoral crisis for the last half century in the Church, but I honestly think we haven’t yet seen anything like what might lie ahead. The 4 Cardinals — I like to call them “The Four Just Men” (coined by the prolific Edgar Wallace a century ago)…Continue Reading