Critiquing Diarmuid O'Murchu's 'New World Order'
Doctrinal Note on the Book "Reframing Religious Life"
ROME, APRIL 16, (Zenit) - The following statement is a translation of a document from the Doctrinal Commission of the Spanish bishops' conference. It was translated and published by the English edition of L'Osservatore Romano last month.
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Summary: The Doctrinal Commission of the Bishops' Conference of Spain presents this Doctrinal Note in order to bring to public attention the seriously erroneous affirmations found in the book "Reframing Religious Life. An Expanded Vision for the Future," by Father Diarmuid O'Murchu, M.S.C. According to Father O'Murchu, religious men and women "should leave the Church and take on a non-canonical status" since "the values of the Religious life belong to a more ancient pre-religious tradition."
He therefore marginalizes Christian revelation and its ecclesial transmission, abolishes the need for redemption and proposes a non-Christian vision where the "Kingdom" or the "Reign" is a substitute for Jesus Christ and his Church.
Father O'Murchu also disfigures the sense and significance of the religious vows of poverty, obedience and chastit
Diarmuid O’Murchu, Author of Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way
Traditional Western theology, according to O’Murchu, has been rooted in an understanding of sinful humanity in a flawed creation. Over the centuries this paradigm has engendered co-dependent relationships among the people of God. Even worse has been an imperial image of God, which, after Constantine, which affirmed imperial models of human authority, whether in the church or society.
Here O’Murchu shows how it is in the power of that Spirit of evolution that Jesus incarnates afresh God’s embodied presence in our midst, and encourages us on the way to becoming creative participants in God’s unfolding mission.
Readers who are familiar with O’Murchu’s work will find much to ponder, and those seeking a new understanding of faith, church, and world, an evocative voice.
Diarmuid O’Murchu is the author of many pioneering books that include Evolutionary Faith, Ancestral Grace, Inclusivity, Beyond Original Sin, and When the Disciple Comes of Age (all Orbis). He lives in Ireland and speaks throughout the world.
Paschal Paradox: Reflections on a Life of Spiritual Evolution
In this provocative spiritual autobiography, Diarmuid O'Murchu explores the many paschal journeys in his personal life as well as in the life of the church and the world. He shows how the paschal paradox—the movement through death and resurrection—is at the heart of God's creation and gives meaning to all life. Item# B
"Priest, missioner, and social psychologist,&#;Diarmuid O'Murchu&#;has worked with homeless people, refugees, and HIV/AIDS patients on three continents. His many books include Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way, Evolutionary Faith, Ancestral Grace, Adult Faith, Incarnation, Inclusivity,&#;and&#;Religious Life in the 21st Century. He lives in Ireland and speaks throughout the world."
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By Diarmuid O’Murchu (Orbis, )
The generic title of Diarmuid O’Murchu’s latest book is misleading. Fear not. This is O’Murchu at his cutting-edge finest. Building on themes from ’s Adult Faith (Orbis), he challenges complacent Catholic adults to join the swelling ranks of seekers striving to become “adult Catholics” amid the religious and social upheavals of the 21st century.
His purpose is twofold: first, to support and encourage Catholics who are asking questions, seeking mature answers to the mysteries of God, humanity, and the evolving universe; and second, to apply some serious shock therapy to dormant adults to awaken them to the positive evolutionary processes at play all around them. He urges Catholic adults to recognize that the church structure they live in today bears little resemblance to St. Paul’s vision of church with house-churches “small enough to be intimate . . . flexible, minimally structured, and socially oriented to justice and inclusion.” Instead, most Catholics experience a church that bears the stamp of Emperor Constantine. His imperial, hierarchical, male-dominated model produces what O&r
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