From Catholic World News : Peruvian cardinal rips hedonism, neo-paganism

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Argentina confronts the Spirit of this Age in this interview, where He puts the smack-down on the -isms

Among his points:

*We see ideological current ranging from Marxism to liberalism, collectivism to radical individualism, agnosticism to syncretism... We are presented with a new sort of feminism which fails to recognize maternity as God's most valuable gift to women and upholds homosexuality as a sexual option rather than the disordered inclination which it is.

We see this new current in which everything is relative and nothing is definitive because the ultimate measure is always I, myself, and my personal whims.

*Faithful to the Gospel the Church always intervenes with truth and firmness, denouncing attacks on life and the family. This can be seen in the countless statements issued by the bishops of Peru on these matters in recent years.

The prestige of the Church as "watchman of the Peruvian soul" emerges also from surveys: it is the institution most highly esteemed for preaching the faith and defending the sacred right to life and it could not be otherwise. Continually and in many different activities in parishes, schools, and church movements the Church in Peru strives to promote the Gospel of life and the family.

*The mission of the Catholic Church is to preach faith in Christ to all peoples. This permanent task is multiform: parish catechesis, religious instruction in schools, administration of the sacraments, Sunday Mass homilies, ministry of hospital chaplains, in convents, spiritual retreats… and many other useful Church events, Eucharistic Congresses, youth days, voluntary helpers assisting the sick, lay associations which are beacons of religiosity.

In Lima at present we have a city mission, Remar Mar adentro, involving hundreds of thousands of people in parishes, schools, confraternities and Church movements with the mission to bring people to conversion, to turn their hearts towards God._ These are all channels for teaching Catholic doctrine and morals, the social doctrine which defends the rights or workers while not forgetting their duties.

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