![]() ![]() Holiness, which is our goal, requires this close contact with God. The desert is a place "where one can experience a deep mystical encounter with God who transforms and transfigures". What Cardinal Sarah proposes is a "path in the desert" because "the desert, hollows out emptiness, thirst and silence in man and thus prepares him to listen to God and His law". Cardinal Sarah proposes an itinerary to experience Jesus, which is an absolute must for those who, in these times of great upheaval, in the world and in the Church, want a fixed and eternal point on which to build their lives. This is exactly what the book by Cardinal Robert Sarah reminds us, Catechism of the S piritual Life, which begins precisely with the words of Jesus, reported by the evangelist Mark: "Repent and believe in the Gospel". It’s by re-focusing on our life's task, which is conversion. So how does an ordinary member of the Church, but also a consecrated person, a bishop and even a cardinal avoid being sucked into a diatribe that risks being entirely "mundane"? Or not be discouraged by a Church that seems to obscure the presence of Christ rather than reveal it, in which the "betrayal of the apostles", their "filth", is dramatically present, as the then Cardinal Ratzinger once said? Yet, these are just a few examples of what is happening – to which could be added the disgrace of the German “Synodal Path”, the war against the liturgy which belongs to the tradition of the Church, a more than ambiguous preparation of the Synod on synodality, the revelations and the denunciations contained in the testimonies of Monsignor Gänswein, Cardinals Müller and Pell in recent weeks - which give the idea of a Church transformed into a battlefield. In addition, there is the tragic spectacle of the trial underway in the Vatican for the investment in the London building at the centre of very dubious financial transactions, which has left the image of the reigning pontiff badly bruised. In the meantime, we are faced with the concrete possibility that a bishop who espouses heretical theses may even become the guardian of Catholic orthodoxy: this is the German Heiner Wilmer, who last December seemed destined to lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but whose appointment was stalled by the intervention of about twenty cardinals directly to the pope, but which today once again seems possible. He is the Jesuit and artist, who has been found guilty of sexual abuse and had an excommunication mysteriously lifted in record time. Much is said about the fight against sexual abuse, but then we helplessly observe a mega-operation at the highest levels of the Church to protect Father Marko Rupnik. If for years, the Church has lived in confusion, not to mention apostasy, then in recent months we have witnessed an acceleration that cannot fail to disorientate and install bitterness in the ordinary faithful. ![]()
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