Letters

Gnosticism

Contents - Sep 2005 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Support the 2005 Fighting Fund! - Peter Westmore Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008 - AD2000 REPORT News: The Chuch Around the World Canadian Bishops' cave-in to 'renegade Catholicism' under fire Priesthood: America's 'vocation rich' dioceses: latest success stories analysed - AD2000 Report Can reverence at Mass make a comeback? - Michael Ryan Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist - Fr John Corapi Education: Catholic schools of the future - Br John Moylan CFC Cinema: The Church under Nazism: a sensitive film portrayal in 'The Ninth Day' - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis - Thomas E. Woods Jr (reviewer) A religious response to evil ideologies - John Rego Letters: Liturgy - John Daly Letters: Liberal manifesto - Dr Peter Gilet Letters: Fatima and Benedict XVI - Paul MacLeod Letters: Society of St Pius X - Fr Kevin Robinson Events: C.S. Lewis Seminar - Sat 17 Sept 2005 2pm-9pm Letters: Ethical medicine? - Dr A.W. Hartwig Letters: Latin Mass - Richard Congram Letters: Simple Catechisms - Rosanna Sherman Letters: Gnosticism Letters: Good reading - E. Pickering Books: GOING AGAINST THE STREAM: Ethical Aspects of Ageing and Care, by Peter Jeffery - Kerrie Allen (reviewer) Books: THE ART OF GIVING by Francine Black - Kerrie Allen (reviewer) Books: THE PATH OF LIFE: Benedictine Spirituality for Monks and Lay People - Gabrielle Walsh (reviewer) Books: STAIRWAY TO THE UPPER ROOM: Daily Meditations on the Gospel Readings - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: The Holy Shroud, by Antonio Cassanelli - Gabrielle Walsh (reviewer) Books: More good reading from AD Books Reflection: Benedict XVI: how to make the new evangelisation more effective - Fr Dennis Byrnes PP

Can we really be surprised at the success of the book The Da Vinci Code in undermining the faith of so many of its readers?

The biblical experts have been trying to make Sacred Scripture into apocrypha (writings of doubtful authenticity) for decades, while the authorship of the Gospels is often called into question in Sunday homilies with the Books of Genesis and Job branded as fable by priests who con- tinue to hold up the Book with the words, "This is the Word of the Lord".

Is it any wonder that the gnostics are now trying to make apocrypha into Sacred Scripture?

How can anyone not expect many Catholics to be led astray by the ridiculous myths of Dan Brown and his fellow gnostics? And some exegetes never refer to the Evangelists as saints.

Let us pray and hope that the Church in the not too distant future will use her authority to reaffirm the truth of Sacred Scripture against all those seeking its destruction - and not merely the gnostics.

KEVIN McMANUS
Ashfield, NSW

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 18 No 8 (September 2005), p. 16