tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post8902479940732821400..comments2023-10-05T10:29:39.439+01:00Comments on Catholic Collar And Tie: Cracks by which the Smoke of Satan entered the ChurchAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09049074568745678686noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-62295734475741394342014-03-09T11:22:58.336+00:002014-03-09T11:22:58.336+00:00Thank you for this.
It is an example of the proble...Thank you for this.<br />It is an example of the problems PCT creates not only for the Church as an institution but for persons who see its flaws.<br />God bless.Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-83982625662240789492014-03-09T08:41:00.812+00:002014-03-09T08:41:00.812+00:00Dear Father
About 10 years ago I was working as a ...Dear Father<br />About 10 years ago I was working as a PR/Education Officer for a pro-life charity and my wife and I were asked to go through the counselling training. We were disturbed to learn that they were using the Rogerian Non-Directive approach based on the ideas of Carl Rogers.<br />The Rogerian model allowed no space for Catholic understandings of Original Sin, Concupiscence, Redemption, Grace, or the Thomistic principles for giving good guidance and wise counsel.<br />As such the non-directive approach aimed only to give 'information' to make an 'informed choice' through so-called 'self-actualization.' We realized that such an approach could actually facilitate a woman towards having an abortion! Also, the Catholic counsellors were required to leave their Faith at the door when it came to helping people in such a serious situation. Another amazing thing that we noticed, was that those most committed to the non-directive approach became remarkably directive when we questioned their approach. They preferred it to the Catholic teaching.<br /><br />This led us to do further research. We learned that Rogerian group therapy sessions had been used on the IHM nuns in Southern California in the 1960's. When Rogers and his team arrived there were 615 religious in the community. One year later, 300 of them petitioned Rome to be released from their vows. The nuns ran 60 schools at the outset and ended up with just 1 school. So we researched further and came across William Coulson. He had been a 'disciple' of Rogers in the early days, but had been converted and spent years warning people of the corrosive effects of the Rogerian approach. <br />Coulson explained that Rogers had influenced the New Age Esalen Centre in California and that his principles had migrated into education and have taken root in much of the 'Values-Clarification' education which has evolved into the educational systems around today. These are, of course, explicitly warned against in the 1993 document The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality from the Pontifical Congregation for the Family. As an Education Officer, I was horrified to realize that the very relativistic forces we were fighting against in education had been influenced by the man behind the charity's counselling system. These techniques are at times used in schools today - in the Orwellian-sounding Citizenship Education for example.<br /><br />In the end we had to leave that charity because they would not listen to us, but we were glad to have learned so much about our present cultural milieu from the experience. Hopefully the Trinitarian-Christocentric approach can replace this selfism. Paul VI wrote a helpful book about all this called Psychology as Religion- The Cult of Self-Worship. He has a lot of helpful material in there.<br /><br />In Christ<br />AAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-56773277047841537912014-03-08T10:28:48.883+00:002014-03-08T10:28:48.883+00:00Thank you for this comment, David.
It is not too l...Thank you for this comment, David.<br />It is not too late for the Bishops to revoke its place in pastoral care...<br />God bless.Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-17233722859488558742014-03-08T08:01:01.673+00:002014-03-08T08:01:01.673+00:00Father,
you are so right. PCT is indeed relativist...Father,<br />you are so right. PCT is indeed relativist, seeing truth as something that changes from person to person; situation to situation.. it is utterly relativist and opposed to God and his unchanging truth. It should have been thoroughly condemned by the Church in the 50's and 60's, not greeted with applause.<br />David A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-78678191199085030052014-03-07T18:40:15.016+00:002014-03-07T18:40:15.016+00:00Thank you, Lynda.
I suspect those who fail to corr...Thank you, Lynda.<br />I suspect those who fail to correct doctrinal irregularity or correct what is in conflict with dogmatic truths probably see causing emotional pain and a measure of social isolation as the evil thing, but I would disagree with them on that: where Truth is lost, the father of lies steps in. We cannot tend the emotions and neglect the soul.<br />As for therapy, I think all of today’s major therapies have unacceptable aspects to them; PCT is not alone. For example, psychodynamics and psychoanalysis blame our past, which can write off concupiscence; Transactional Analysis (TA) wants to free the individual from the behavioural scripts others write for them (and the Church would be considered a major script-writer) so that the individual can live freely. Sadly, these therapeutic theories have good imports which are lost behind these unacceptable ideas. PCT requires empathy and unconditional positive-regard for people, which we can (should?) embody in pastoral care; psychodynamics allows us to see that we are indeed affected by our past, but not clear enough on the fact that human freedom is not eradicated by it; TA helps us to seek solid ‘adult-adult’ relationships rather than childish subservience to a ‘controlling parent’, but tends to see all ‘scripts’ as originating in a controlling parent. The devil is very clever: he can take what is good and manipulate it so that its up-shot is harmful to souls.<br />God Bless you and yours. Fr Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11702725497183621855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641832955811669058.post-44457461790041539832014-03-07T16:13:27.161+00:002014-03-07T16:13:27.161+00:00Person Centred Theory is opposed to the truth abou...Person Centred Theory is opposed to the truth about the nature and dignity of man and the Catholic Faith. Refusing to correct decisively and zealously "doctrinal irregularity" where one has such a grave and great duty, is gravely evil, to assist in the continuance of evil doing and its awful consequences for souls. For a long time these widespread abandonments of the Faith and morals are great gaping chasm-like wounds, rather than cracks. They are a direct attack on Our Lord, God. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com