David Torkington
Although we seem to be in an unholy mess, the answer to our present plight is to return immediately to the selfless, sacrificial, redemptive, and contemplative spirituality that was not just lived by the first saints but by all the saints who followed them.

Before the heresy of Quietism, Systematic Theology—which taught how to come to know God with the mind—and Mystical Theology—which taught how to come to love God with the heart—were complementary to each other. After the condemnation of Quietism, however, Mystical Theology mostly disappeared.
As the historian Msgr. Philip Hughes pointed out, it was replaced by Moral Theology, down to the present day. It introduced a new Moral Spirituality that sets before us the exemplary moral life that Christ Himself lived and then calls upon us all to live that same life. However, it often does this without the infused supernatural love that Christ received from His Father in the contemplative prayer to which He turned every day of His life. This profound prayer was taken out of mainstream Catholic spirituality after Quietism. It led to the disastrous moral malaise that we all experience today.
Since Quietism then, when the new Moral Spirituality took over, the faithful have been reading the life of Christ and the lives of the saints backward. In other words, they saw and were inspired by the impeccable moral behavior of Christ and the saints and were led to believe that the way to follow them was by trying to imitate their perfect moral behavior themselves. If they had only read their lives forward, instead of backward, they would have seen that the perfect moral lives lived by Christ and the saints were only possible because of the love of God that they had firstly received in prayer—more precisely, contemplative prayer. It is only here that true,  » Read More
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