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Letters

Watered-down faith

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 Contents - Mar 2002AD2000 March 2002 - Buy a copy now
Editorial: Selecting and forming future priests - Michael Gilchrist
St Thérèse's relics make Australian pilgrimage - Mother Teresa OCDM
News: The Church Around the World
'Conservation Plan' recommends changes to Toowoomba's Cathedral - Michael Gilchrist
North American vocations summit overlooks orthodox success stories - Zenit News Service
Former Anglican Bishop of London explains why he became a Catholic - Monsignor Graham Leonard
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration spreads throughout the world - Fr Douglas Harris
'Liturgiam Authenticam', ICEL and the need for improved Mass translations - Anna Silvas
The Benedictine medal: a long history of devotion - Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism - Rett Peaden
Letters: Watered-down faith - Teresa Martin
Letters: Testimonies - Raymond de Souza
Letters: Apology - Fr M. Shadbolt PP
Letters: Last straw (letter) - Justin Kearney
Letters: Human Rights (letter) - Sr M.B. Eanswythe OSB
Letters: Courage Needed (letter) - Frank Bellet
Letters: Sunday obligation - Leo Willems
Letters: Forgotten teachings - Mrs Hiske Deschepper
Letters: Nicene Creed - Ken Bayliss
Letters: Parish libraries? - Bob Cotterall
Letters: Indian appeal - Kevin L. Fernandes
Letters: Teaching position - Robert Anderson
Books: Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative-Libertarian Debate, George W. Carey (ed) - Alex Sidhu (reviewer)
Books: Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, by Paul Vitz - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
Books: Living The Catholic Faith, by Archbishop Charles Chaput - Anthony Cappello (reviewer)
Books: Fatima Handbook, by Leo Madigan - Catherine Sheehan (reviewer)
Books: Fr Werenfried - A Life, by Joanna Bogle - Michael Daniel (reviewer)
Books: New Titles from AD Books
Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church - Br Christian Moe FSC

I was thrilled to see the letter by Mavis Power in the February AD2000. Since then I have contacted her to offer to be a contact person in my area.

It is so very devastating to have to go to so many different parishes to find a good and loyal priest who says Mass the way it should be said. The watering down of the faith that is taking place, and has been for quite a few years, has done nothing to attract more people to the faith or to the priesthood.

When the guidelines were clear and not clouded, as they are made out to be today, there were many vocations and the churches were full. Now, with the wishy-washy feel-good teachings being promoted we see empty seminaries, empty churches and empty hearts.

Only with true devout prayer and true devout teachings will things turn around. But the truth about what is happening in our faith, in our parishes and in our families must be told. So, once again, thank you for bringing Mavis' letter to our attention.

TERESA MARTIN
Clifton Hill, Qld

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Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 15 No 2 (March 2002), p. 13

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