I never heard of Corita Kent before, but it looks like whoever did the horrifying synod art had. There are so many actually good Catholic artists now and yet the Vatican ignores any kind of traditional art for this drivel…
Whoa. I'm not yet finished reading (let alone processing!) the article, but I'm struck by the realization that the destruction of IHS was -- had to have been -- a 'pilot' for what has now overtaken our society. There's no way it couldn't have been. The similarities between how the order was infiltrated, doubt was sown, perversion was sown, all these other ungodly doctrines were sown, to the ruin of the order.... It's far, far too similar to what I see in going on in Christianity today, especially in the Protestant/non-denominational circles I have ran in.
The nuking of the religious orders was a trial, yes. It wasn't just the IHMs. If you want a really terrifying rabbit hole, look up the involvement of these psychologists with the CIA's mind control experiments.
I'm most disturbed by the larger implications for Christianity, though. The Catholic church is the foundational church, it has safeguarded Christian history and texts for centuries. None of the other modern denominations (or 'flavors' as I call them) of Christianity would exist if not for the Catholic church. But this experiment... Dealt a heavy blow to the foundations.
What happens if you take out a foundational pillar of a wall or building? It falls. My discernment tells me the people (or demons, rather) that were behind this did this strategically. They knew it would carry devastating spiritual impact to the whole of Christendom. They knew it would widen the divide among the brethren (I am struck by all the anti-Catholic sentiment I heard growing up, and now I suspect it was rooted in reaction to these very twisted events).
Yes. Just now finished editing the text of an ebook I'll be publishing outlining the history of the attempts by secular governments to destroy the religious life as part of a larger campaign to destroy Christianity itself, starting in the 18th century.
I believe it. There's no way people devoted to a religious order would renounce their vows that quickly if there wasn't some mind control or occultic activity at work. The enemy plays dirty, and he's a silver tongued snake.
Thank you for this, I’m really fascinated by the interview with the represent psychologist and how the humanistic psychology he describes is pretty much the air we breath now. I’m going to read Vitz’s book critiquing the entire movement, have you browsed it yourself ?
This is hard to read. Why is Christ and his bride the Church not enough? Why bring this garbage in the church and defile her. God have mercy on these souls who caused so much damage and pain.
Wow, that is quite a tale, and makes for very sad reading. I've read through it several times now, and I cannot help but draw parallels with CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength in its depiction of the deliberate and malicious destruction of institutions from within.
I remember a lot about Corita Kent. Thanks for this piece. I never put Corita Kent's secularization and the Rogerian psychologists' destruction of her order together until I read this. I actually didn't know she was a member of that order. The Rogerians and the zeitgeist helped destroy her order. Her growing fame and her inappropriate attraction to Jesuit Daniel Berringer and Sulpician Robert Giguere went to her head and led to her rebellion against the Church. I never heard anything about her living with a woman. She left her money to the secular community that was formed by the women who left her order, but she also left many of her artworks to Fr. Giguere.
BTW, I don't think the headline matches what you wrote. Did her "art" really convince any Catholic that the sexual moral teachings of the Church are oppressive? I think you need to develop that more.
Golly, this is so depressing. That interview with the curator of Corita's art - did you see how dead her eyes are? Must be from being surrounded by this horrendous Rupnik-like "art" all the time. It all makes me shiver. I lived through that time also and left the church in my teens - not because I loved the winds of change but because my beloved church had been a spiritual oasis of peace and truth and a contemplative Mass. And from one day to the next, it was ripped away and had become a tambourine-guitar twanging-people swaying-felt banner hanging-holding hands hootenanny. I felt like I had been thrust into a bizarre folk festival with nothing to do with Jesus, and a very bad festival, at that. It was a total train wreck and I ran from it because there was nowhere to go at that time. The dear elder pastor had suddenly been suppressed by a weird young priest whose only desire seemed to be to impress about how cool he was and how desperate he wanted to be liked. Thanks be to God, I did return eventually. Now it's a rerun of the bad days and we have to hang tight through the Bergolian train wreck. So much could be said. I leave it that. I appreciate this sorry tale - it does explain well what happened. Jesus was nowhere in this miasma...
I have a large loose yarnball of memories of the many ways in which the Church was shaking on its foundations in the 60’s. I had some terrific nuns in school (the Holy Names, of French-Canadian origin), but we were on the west coast, and not a few of them had fallen prey the infamous “Mexican retreat” [Cuernavaca] crowd, and gone bananas in the usual ways — Gawd, I’d forgotten all about “sensitivity training”! In 1968 I bolted from their care (which on the whole was still pretty good), and was off to grade 11 in the local giant public school — with boys! — though I was too socially stunted to take much advantage of that (which had more to do with my Mom than the nuns). On the upside, both my parents were passionately at odds with all of Vat-2 NewChurch, and I certainly remember the unbelievably speedy assaults on all that we had held dear in the Church. [At least twice we fled 90 minutes down the highway on a snowy Christmas Eve to attend the chanted midnight Mass at a Trappist Abbey. Loved it.) I had a really old St. Joseph hymnal (given to me and my Mom for helping with some sort of kids’ summer religion class), and I can remember in the mid-60s tucking it away in our attic, in the firm belief that I would never hear another Latin Mass in my life…
I’m foggy as to whether the name Corita Kent rings a bell, but her wretched style of graphics rapidly invaded the space all around us, most notably in the “smudge art” covers and decorations of throw-away missalettes. Even within that degraded genre, Kent’s blobs and scribbles are just SUPER-CRAP. [I was reading a review of this year’s Venice Biennialle not long ago, and apparently it was pronounced a total dud.] And, ah, the Berrigan brothers — their name arose in our house periodically, and my parents stopped just short of spitting on the floor. SO depressing to have these empty relics popping up in our time — but the connection to Rupnik, and to that perv Paglia who commissioned all the nude studs in his chancel, is just SO clear.
A not well known fact: three Sisters of the IHM Order moved to Wichita, KS in the early 1970’s and were accepted by the orthodox bishop. They “refounded” the Order faithful to the Church and original charism.
They are a small but growing group of Sisters, in a habit, living according to the Rule and teaching in the thriving Wichita diocesan schools. Blessed is our God!
I can't say anything about the entire field of psychotherapy, but I have had first hand experience with this particular thing that Dr. Coulson was talking about, and have seen it completely destroy people, permanently and irresolvably, namely my mother. It was an enormous and massively influential movement that shaped a great deal of what happened afterwards to our whole culture, and none of it was good.
William Coulson has had quite a lot more than this one interview to say about it. I'd suggest looking him up.
Here he talks about the influence of it on the clerical sex abuse scandals:
And here is a clinical case study about a person who got involved in the Rogerian thing in a destructive cult. It seems that the programme Dr. Coulson was describing is indistinguishable from cult brainwashing techniques.
I never heard of Corita Kent before, but it looks like whoever did the horrifying synod art had. There are so many actually good Catholic artists now and yet the Vatican ignores any kind of traditional art for this drivel…
Whoa. I'm not yet finished reading (let alone processing!) the article, but I'm struck by the realization that the destruction of IHS was -- had to have been -- a 'pilot' for what has now overtaken our society. There's no way it couldn't have been. The similarities between how the order was infiltrated, doubt was sown, perversion was sown, all these other ungodly doctrines were sown, to the ruin of the order.... It's far, far too similar to what I see in going on in Christianity today, especially in the Protestant/non-denominational circles I have ran in.
Also: what is the encounter movement?
The nuking of the religious orders was a trial, yes. It wasn't just the IHMs. If you want a really terrifying rabbit hole, look up the involvement of these psychologists with the CIA's mind control experiments.
I'm most disturbed by the larger implications for Christianity, though. The Catholic church is the foundational church, it has safeguarded Christian history and texts for centuries. None of the other modern denominations (or 'flavors' as I call them) of Christianity would exist if not for the Catholic church. But this experiment... Dealt a heavy blow to the foundations.
What happens if you take out a foundational pillar of a wall or building? It falls. My discernment tells me the people (or demons, rather) that were behind this did this strategically. They knew it would carry devastating spiritual impact to the whole of Christendom. They knew it would widen the divide among the brethren (I am struck by all the anti-Catholic sentiment I heard growing up, and now I suspect it was rooted in reaction to these very twisted events).
Yes. Just now finished editing the text of an ebook I'll be publishing outlining the history of the attempts by secular governments to destroy the religious life as part of a larger campaign to destroy Christianity itself, starting in the 18th century.
I look forward to reading it.
I believe it. There's no way people devoted to a religious order would renounce their vows that quickly if there wasn't some mind control or occultic activity at work. The enemy plays dirty, and he's a silver tongued snake.
Thank you for this, I’m really fascinated by the interview with the represent psychologist and how the humanistic psychology he describes is pretty much the air we breath now. I’m going to read Vitz’s book critiquing the entire movement, have you browsed it yourself ?
No, I was looking for something. Can you give me a link?
Of course! This book was reference in the interview you linked
Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship https://a.co/d/6P6IZEZ
This is hard to read. Why is Christ and his bride the Church not enough? Why bring this garbage in the church and defile her. God have mercy on these souls who caused so much damage and pain.
Wow, that is quite a tale, and makes for very sad reading. I've read through it several times now, and I cannot help but draw parallels with CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength in its depiction of the deliberate and malicious destruction of institutions from within.
I remember a lot about Corita Kent. Thanks for this piece. I never put Corita Kent's secularization and the Rogerian psychologists' destruction of her order together until I read this. I actually didn't know she was a member of that order. The Rogerians and the zeitgeist helped destroy her order. Her growing fame and her inappropriate attraction to Jesuit Daniel Berringer and Sulpician Robert Giguere went to her head and led to her rebellion against the Church. I never heard anything about her living with a woman. She left her money to the secular community that was formed by the women who left her order, but she also left many of her artworks to Fr. Giguere.
BTW, I don't think the headline matches what you wrote. Did her "art" really convince any Catholic that the sexual moral teachings of the Church are oppressive? I think you need to develop that more.
I had never heard of Corita Kent, what a concerning history.
Very well done.
Golly, this is so depressing. That interview with the curator of Corita's art - did you see how dead her eyes are? Must be from being surrounded by this horrendous Rupnik-like "art" all the time. It all makes me shiver. I lived through that time also and left the church in my teens - not because I loved the winds of change but because my beloved church had been a spiritual oasis of peace and truth and a contemplative Mass. And from one day to the next, it was ripped away and had become a tambourine-guitar twanging-people swaying-felt banner hanging-holding hands hootenanny. I felt like I had been thrust into a bizarre folk festival with nothing to do with Jesus, and a very bad festival, at that. It was a total train wreck and I ran from it because there was nowhere to go at that time. The dear elder pastor had suddenly been suppressed by a weird young priest whose only desire seemed to be to impress about how cool he was and how desperate he wanted to be liked. Thanks be to God, I did return eventually. Now it's a rerun of the bad days and we have to hang tight through the Bergolian train wreck. So much could be said. I leave it that. I appreciate this sorry tale - it does explain well what happened. Jesus was nowhere in this miasma...
I have a large loose yarnball of memories of the many ways in which the Church was shaking on its foundations in the 60’s. I had some terrific nuns in school (the Holy Names, of French-Canadian origin), but we were on the west coast, and not a few of them had fallen prey the infamous “Mexican retreat” [Cuernavaca] crowd, and gone bananas in the usual ways — Gawd, I’d forgotten all about “sensitivity training”! In 1968 I bolted from their care (which on the whole was still pretty good), and was off to grade 11 in the local giant public school — with boys! — though I was too socially stunted to take much advantage of that (which had more to do with my Mom than the nuns). On the upside, both my parents were passionately at odds with all of Vat-2 NewChurch, and I certainly remember the unbelievably speedy assaults on all that we had held dear in the Church. [At least twice we fled 90 minutes down the highway on a snowy Christmas Eve to attend the chanted midnight Mass at a Trappist Abbey. Loved it.) I had a really old St. Joseph hymnal (given to me and my Mom for helping with some sort of kids’ summer religion class), and I can remember in the mid-60s tucking it away in our attic, in the firm belief that I would never hear another Latin Mass in my life…
I’m foggy as to whether the name Corita Kent rings a bell, but her wretched style of graphics rapidly invaded the space all around us, most notably in the “smudge art” covers and decorations of throw-away missalettes. Even within that degraded genre, Kent’s blobs and scribbles are just SUPER-CRAP. [I was reading a review of this year’s Venice Biennialle not long ago, and apparently it was pronounced a total dud.] And, ah, the Berrigan brothers — their name arose in our house periodically, and my parents stopped just short of spitting on the floor. SO depressing to have these empty relics popping up in our time — but the connection to Rupnik, and to that perv Paglia who commissioned all the nude studs in his chancel, is just SO clear.
A not well known fact: three Sisters of the IHM Order moved to Wichita, KS in the early 1970’s and were accepted by the orthodox bishop. They “refounded” the Order faithful to the Church and original charism.
They are a small but growing group of Sisters, in a habit, living according to the Rule and teaching in the thriving Wichita diocesan schools. Blessed is our God!
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I can't say anything about the entire field of psychotherapy, but I have had first hand experience with this particular thing that Dr. Coulson was talking about, and have seen it completely destroy people, permanently and irresolvably, namely my mother. It was an enormous and massively influential movement that shaped a great deal of what happened afterwards to our whole culture, and none of it was good.
William Coulson has had quite a lot more than this one interview to say about it. I'd suggest looking him up.
Here he talks about the influence of it on the clerical sex abuse scandals:
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/full-hearts-and-empty-heads-the-price-of-certain-recent-programs-in-humanistic-psychology-906
If you want to talk to a faithful Catholic priest who has extensive training in the field, I'd suggest getting in touch with Fr. Chad Ripperger.
https://youtu.be/DnVG5yiaO7k?si=yAFOmoU6Cuuky3Jy
And here is a clinical case study about a person who got involved in the Rogerian thing in a destructive cult. It seems that the programme Dr. Coulson was describing is indistinguishable from cult brainwashing techniques.
https://articles2.icsahome.com/articles/psychotherapy-of-a-casualty--csj-5-2
Thank you! I will have a look.