Mark Shea has a post today that has a couple of interesting nuggets.
One nugget has to do with with theologians and their view of the people like Mark, Karl Keating, Peter Kreeft, etc. My feeling is that too many theologians they can be so caught up in their ivory towers that they forget about the ignorant masses of Catholic who are hungering for Truth and need it to be expressed to them in a simple way. Karl Keating's book "Catholicism and Fundamentalism" and Alan Schreck's book "Catholic and Christian" both, literally, changed my life at a point where I had begun to wonder if the Church had made a bunch of stuff up. Without the "new apologist" approach I would probably be in a bible church and have abandoned key parts of the Truth of what the Church teaches.
Mark also mentions his experience with RCIA, I have one anecdote that to me typifies what's wrong with some RCIA programs. I was at a Mass once where the prayers of the faithful had been drawn from what the RCIA candidates had said were sins and areas of their life where they needed the grace of God. The sins were named in the prayers: abortion was among them. So was arguing and yelling. And I thought - someone gets it, someone doesn't. There's a person who has been thru and repented from the sin of abortion. There's another person who thinks that arguing and yelling were where they needed God's grace. I don't know their hearts and perhaps my thoughts on it were not appropriate, but I thought the juxtaposition of something so trivial and something so grave was very telling about how the program was reaching into the souls of the candidates.
