CROP Walk

On Sunday, May 6, many local communities will be hosting the annual CROP Walk. This walk is designed to raise funds in order to help alleviate hunger in the world. Many of our local parishes lend their support to this walk. Unfortunately, not all of the money is used to fight hunger. Some of the money goes to fund contraceptive programs. Several dioceses have withdrawn support for CROP Walks due to this issue. Follow these links for more information: link link link

The New Age Invades the DOR

The promotional poster (link) for the recent Convocation/Ministerium for the Rochester Diocese highlighted Father Rohr’s expertise on the enneagram. We should all be concerned that our priests and ministers were being instructed by such a New Age advocate. In 2003 the Vatican issued a document on the New Age (link) that identified the enneagram as stemming from the ancient heresy of gnosticism. Follow these links for more information on the enneagram and the New Age: link link link link link

The Convocation poster also mentions Father Rohr’s association with “eco-spirituality”. Follow these links for more information on this suspect philosophy: link link link link

Apart from Father Rohr’s apparent New Age theology, it is especially troubling to ponder his fascination with “nude retreats”. One must question the wisdom of bringing in a speaker who sponsors “retreats” that encourage communal male nudity. Shouldn’t this have set off alarm bells after all we have been through regarding sexual scandal in the Church in recent years ? Would any of us feel comfortable in sending our teenage sons to a “retreat” that features adult men taking of all their clothes and dancing around a campfire?