Chapter 9. The New Theology

The ravages caused by the new catechism are already visible in the generation which has been exposed to it.

As required by the sacred congregation for seminaries and universities since 1970, I had included in the plan of

studies for my seminaries one year's spirituality at the beginning of the course.

Now spirituality includes the study of asceticism, mysticism, training in meditation and prayer,

deepening the notions of virtue, supernatural grace, the presence of the Holy Ghost.

Very soon, we had to think again.

We realized that these young men who had come with a strong desire to become true priests,

and having an interior life deeper

than many of their contemporaries and accustomed to prayer were lacking in the fundamental

ideas of our faith. They had never learned them. During the year of spirituality, we had to teach them the catechism. I have many times told the

story of the birth of Econ. In this house situated in the valet in Switzerland between Cian and

Martine, it was originally intended that the future priests would complete only their first year, the

year of spirituality.

Then they would follow the university course at Freiburg.

A complete seminary at Econ took shape as soon as it did because the university at Freiburg

could not provide a truly Catholic education.

The Church has always considered the university chairs of theology, canon law, liturgy, and church

law as organs of her magisterium, or at least of her preaching. Now it is quite certain that at present in all,

or nearly all of the Catholic universities, the Orthodox Catholic faith is no longer being taught.

I have not found one doing so, either in free Europe or in the United States, or in South America.

There are always some professors who, under the pretext of theological research, express

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