Confronting The Pope Of Suspicion: The Key To Church Reform (Special 2021 Edition) by John Gravino

Paperback: Pope emeritus Benedict was exactly right when he blamed the sexual abuse scandal of the Church on the sexual revolution. Priests and theologians embraced the psychological ideas behind the sexual revolution, but many of these ideas clashed with traditional theology. So theology was thrown out, and a new "I'm okay, you're okay" philosophy was what seminarians were taught in their religion classes. 

These new ideas rejected Christian morality in favour of a relativism that encouraged sexual indulgence and experimentation. Seminarians were no longer taught to be chaste and celibate because it was now believed that these ancient traditions were psychologically damaging. Sexual liberation promised greater happiness, freedom, and mental health according to the new psychology. 

But like the promises of a certain ancient serpent, the promises of humanistic psychology would prove to be empty and false. The new philosophy of freedom that promised so much in terms of personal growth and fulfilment took a very dark turn. And it led to one of the darkest chapters in Church history. 

In Confronting the Pope of Suspicion: The Key to Church Reform (Special 2021 Edition), John Gravino documents how the new ideas of humanistic psychology, far from leading to the promised land of self-actualization, drove humanity instead into the wasteland of criminal sexual abuse.

Is Pope Francis the shepherd to lead us out of the wasteland? 

Hardly. 

For he promotes the very heresies that brought us to this dark valley in the first place.

Confronting the Pope of Suspicion: The Key to Church Reform is dedicated to Our Lady of Paris. To the rebuilding of that glorious monument to her, a monument to the marriage of human soul and Holy Spirit, a monument to the Christian spirit of the medieval age, to the marriage of faith and reason. It is dedicated to the rebuilding of that temple and dedicated to the rebuilding of its spirit in our hearts.

About the author: John Gravino is the author of The Immoral Landscape of the New Atheism, which was the topic of a health and spirituality seminar at Duke Medical Schoo. He continues to explore the intersection of health and religion and the other big questions of life at his website, NewWalden.Org.