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Monday, June 11, 2018

Three Insights of Pope Leo XIII That Diagnose Our Cultural Malaise - Community in Mission : Community in Mission

Three Insights of Pope Leo XIII That Diagnose Our Cultural Malaise - Community in Mission : Community in Mission: Pope Leo XIII penned an insightful analysis of three trends that both alarmed him and pointed to future problems. He wrote of these three concerns in 1893 in the Encyclical on the Holy Rosary entitled Laetitiae Sanctae (Of Holy Joy). The Pope laid out these three areas of concern and then offered the Mysteries of …

"There are three influences which appear to us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are—first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life (# 4)."

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