The pace of change over the last hundred to 150 years has been so rapid that institutions aligned to the eternal mindset of God seem to be pretty far behind the curve. The Catholic Church was established by Jesus Christ and is protected by the Holy Spirit. God — who is eternal — set up the church and guards the church. Changes from age to age don’t touch him, but they have touched his church.
The author concludes:
This extraordinary development in the applied sciences, especially in the area of electronic technology, has brought in its train an unprecedented explosion of images and information assailing each individual mind, even the youngest child’s, laced with assumptions about how to be successful and what it means to live a good life. The person living in the modern world is incessantly hounded and cajoled by Gospels of various kinds, schemes of salvation and routes to happiness wrapped in highly attractive but often deceptive clothing.
A central aspect of the major changes in our culture that we recognize over the past 150 years is the development of an intellectual argument and structure to support a new definition or new behavior that is deeply contrary to the old argument or old structure. Some of our terminology has been changed by activists because the old terms carried so much moralistic baggage that new terms were needed that sounded scientific and neutral. Thus the term sodomy has been replaced by homosexual and heterosexual. And the idea of human rights has been used to justify the murder of innocent unborn children.
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