![]() Would that more people were taught this lesson! It has been my experience that far too many people react with what can only be described as fear when faced with something that appears to contradict a traditional concept held by them.Ĭlearly there are contradictory statements that simply cannot be reconciled, out of which no meaningful synthesis can be worked out. In talking about one older professor, Father Maurice Costello, a psychologist who tutored him in reading the works of Freud, Weakland observed that Costello’s “example taught that one should not be afraid of ideas that at first seem contradictory to one’s traditional religious concepts, but to accept the challenge of working out a synthesis.” Weakland was the beneficiary of some extraordinary teachers during his monastic training. But I have thus found it a compelling read and there are many statements that have caused me to pause and reflect. I can’t make any broad statements about the book yet, since I am only about a third of the way through it. (Many will remember the circumstances of his resignation and I won’t repeat them here.) Weakland was the Archbishop of Milwaukee until his resignation in 2002. Weakland’s, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop. ![]() ![]() One of the books I am currently reading is Rembert G. ![]()
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