Three Secret Strategies of Satan to Destroy our Children, our Families, our Culture, and our Church by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM (a Hermit of St. Micha

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This is a very good article from a psychological point of view, because it identifies the thought processes (“cognitive distortions”, if you will) that underlie our current troubles, rather than pointing at just one particular movement or philosophy. In effect, he has identified the root cause of the disease rather than dwelling at length upon its symptoms.

Very good find, thanks for sharing! 👍
 
You may want to be careful about the author, his website and his organization. His organization, which has gone by different names
(e.g. OLSM or OMSM), is not recognized by any authority in the Church.

He claims to hold an STL degree, but it is from a tiny non-Catholic school in Montana.

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Good advice, and a good guide. However, I was unclear on the opinion point. Forgive me if I am echoing the articles point. 😃

It has always been my impression that an opinion could be raised on data that is presented in the mind for analysis. The mind then naturally puts this information in context of what it now understands of the subject and the viewpoint. To this point I feel nothing is wrong. The opinion at this point lacks effective substance. It is a concept and benign, if one doesn’t act on it or is swayed by it in any way.

The mind then assesses the opinion to see that if accepted has is, would it be a negative influence in his life. Here most people know enough to add to the data pool to reform the opinion to give it concreteness, or at least to make it less ambiguous…

So we conclude there must be an inner motive and intent whenever opinions are evident, and we cannot automatically fault someone for an opinion, only on the effect it plays out in the person’s life and on his Faith. Perhaps one could even categorize them as mature or immature opinions, so to maturing Faith.

As far as the Church is concerned , it recognizes Sententia Pia, and Opinio Tolerata(Ott) on articles that are not De Fide. The Church would like to see well formed opinions built on Deitic morality, or opinions that are being presented for ecclesial treatment.

On judging, I would have liked to see it studied in comparison with fraternal correction. One can alert an individual to a wrong, but at this point it is a perception only by the observer, no matter how obvious, as intent and motive are factors in the mitigation or culpability. Discreetness is important, and it should be remembered that correction as a result of information gleaned from third party sources is less credible. It can only be a perception in charity, and the benefit of the doubt is extended. In order to discern if a suspect is carrying out a sin, then we would need to be in the position to analyze the act for mitigating criteria according to the definition of sin. (New Advent.org:Sin). So it’s a risky business judging and assuming guilt, even if the stated rule is to not to condemn as described in the complete definition.

So it would appear fraternal correction is the best option in most cases.

see also: blog.adw.org/2009/11/fraternal-correction-the-forgotten-virtue/

The last topic I concur.
 
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