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  • The Inferiority Complex (IV)

                On December 14, 2009, Internet news sites published the following news: Eight married couples from Salzkotten, Germany decided not to send their children to sex-education classes that are compulsory in that country’s schools. As a...
  • The Inferiority Complex (III)

                There should be no objections to a Shepherd of the Church (whichever office he holds in the hierarchy) giving a conference, speech, exhortation, or the like, about an indifferent, even banal, topic such as Art, History, Philosophy; ...
  • Cancer and Cataplasm (and II)

                The old proverb already said it: Desperate cuts must have desperate cures. The “cut” we are talking about here is very desperate, more even than what it seems, therefore it will not be cured with some minor treatment or with hal...
  • Cancer and Cataplasm (I)

                If anybody would try to cure a cancer by applying a cataplasm to it, such a person would be considered a dreamer, at best; but most people would take him as a madman – and rightly so.               Nevertheless, what...
  • The Inferiority Complex (II)

                We have said that the inferiority complex that afflicts Catholic Pastoral practice uses the well-known custom of throwing the ball out of bounds, or avoiding the real problems –and even more so when the need to face them is greate...
  • The Inferiority Complex (I)

                Whether we would like to admit it or not, it is a fact that the few Catholics who still attend Sunday Mass are bored by the homilies they listen to. Although, it would be more precise to say that they are bored by the homilies they ...
  • The Brimboriow (and II)

                One of the maladies of today’s Catholic Pastoral activity is that its practitioners usually speak about what they do not know – or about what they know only by hearsay; that is, they deal with what they have not experienced, or ...
  • The Brimboriow (I)

                In common parlance, to speak about the brimboriow is to speak about what one does not know. Nobody knows what that thing is, or what kind of an instrument it is –if it is truly an instrument—, or the reason for that outlandish n...