Fr Kentenich in a Dachau bathroom

Fr Malak was taken  by a priest friend to meet a German priest whom he’d met. They went to the chapel first.

“Come on” whispered Fr Kentenich.

When we got to the porch, he said “Let’s go to the bathroom, it’s empty at this time of day – we won’t find a better place”.

We sit on chests standing next to the wall. The conversation unfolds. Fr Kentenich makes ever longer contributions, and they turn into a sort of lecture.

 

Wow. Looks like it really is the root of very much evil!

The connection keeps coming back:

“I believe for example that the anti-semitism of Luther is not innocent and that it has something to do with his nominalism.”

Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, Le Choix de Dieu (Paris, 1987), p 78

 

Via Moderna

“The comparison I am about to make is perhaps bold, but it is easily verifiable. With Ockham we witness the first atomic explosion of the modern era. The atom he split was obviously not physical but psychic. It was the nadir of the human soul, with its faculties, which was broken apart by a new concept of freedom. This produced successive aftershocks, which destroyed the unity of theology and Western thought. With Ockham, freedom by means of the claim to radical autonomy that defined it, was separated from all that was foreign to it: reason, sensibility, natural inclinations, and all external factors. Further separations followed: freedom was separated from nature, law, and grace; moral doctrine from mysticism; reason from faith; the individual from society.”

Servais Pinckaers, The Sources of Christian Ethics, (Edinburgh 1995) 242