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Title Page
Copyright Page
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Prologue: One of Us
I Introduction: Windows onto the World
Regarding Materialism
The New Age and the Catholic Mystery
On Vatican II
A Touch of Autobiography
The Sacred Heart and Integral Catholic Culture
On Christendom
A Little Note on Globalization
A Little More on Windows
From France to Ireland
PART I: (Mainly) On Secular Materialism & the New Age Movement
II Stepping Back to Look at Materialism
A Matrix—Anglophone, Secular, and Protestant
A Capitalist Matrix
A Matrix—Philosophically and Scientifically Materialistic
On Enlightenment Epistemology
The Rise of Materialism
Enlightenment Despair
The Destruction of Traditional Values
On Naming the Monster
III The Wind of the Tudors
On Christian Materialism
A Brief Note on Catholic Materialism
A Sclerotic World
IV An Initial Look at New Age Ideology
An Underlying Hidden Unity
A Transcendent and Essential Spirituality—or One Bound to a Cultural Context?
Rooted in an Anglophone, Esoteric Stream
Further Roots of the New Age
Some Broad Consequences of Theosophy
V The Noble Intentions Within the New Age Movement
United in Sincere Aspiration
An Unconscious Iconoclasm
Affirming —and Denying—the King of Hearts
A Little Tale of Good Intention
A Questionable Sufficiency
VI Worlds of Desire
Desire—Healthy and Disordered
Burning with Indiscriminate Desire
Provincialism in Time
A Brief Look into a Very Different World
Secularism, Addiction, and Freedom
VII Enlightenment Despair and Economic Liberalism
Moral Despair
Liberalism and Capitalism
On Secular Imposition
Epistemological Despair and Global Warming
VIII New Age Iconoclasm
“Holistic” Iconoclasm
Back to Paganism
The New Age Collusion with Secular Materialism
First Comes Subtraction—Then Addition
IX Enlightened, Eastern, Esoteric, and English
Findhorn
Regarding Alice Bailey
X Stumbling on the Road to Aquarius
Diluted, but Still De-Personalized
New Age Synthesis
XI The Hem of His Garment?
In the Eleventh Hour
The Missing Factor: or the Connection I Failed to Realize
On Valentin Tomberg, Christian Love and Catholic Tradition
Another Conversion
Confirmed in Joy
XII The New Age Denial of the Fall
Positive Thinking and the Denial of Suffering
“Holistic” Denial of the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Secular Denial of the Fall
Without Hearts that are Pierced
On Evil
On Monism
What Need for Redemption?
The Practical Consequences of Monism
PART II: (Mainly) On Christendom & the Catholic Mystery
XIII Into the Catholic Mystery
Approaching the Sacred Mystery
To Contemplate Personal Experience
The Church: the View from the Exterior
The Debt of Gratitude
XIV On the Holy Sacraments
Testifying to the Mystery of the Sacraments
On Personal Sacramental Experience
The Sacrament as Moral Energy
XV The Catholic Mystery: Buried from Without
Buried in a World of Secularism
The Art of Balancing
The Secular Supposition of Original Innocence
Buried by the New Age
Buried by a Protestant Legacy
XVI The Catholic Mystery: Betrayed from Within
In the Wake of Vatican II
From the Mystery to the Mundane
Liturgical Abuse: Dissonance becomes Hypocrisy
Zany Catholicism—and Worse
A House Divided Against Itself
XVII Seeds of Hope
The Temptation on the Mountain-Top
Orthodoxy Renewed
Vital New Shoots
On Catholic Traditionalism
The Lost Antidote to the New Age
On Mystagogia
XVIII The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
At the Cusp of Modernity
Our Lord Appears in Paray-le-Monial
God Now Has a Human Heart
A Very Human Jesus
On the Sacred Heart Devotion
The Treasure of Frequent Communion
The Image of the Sacred Heart
Montceaux L’Etoile—An Embarrassment of Riches
Reclaiming the Lost Devotion
XIX The Sacred Heart—Symbol for a Counter Revolution
What is a Counter Revolution?
De-Christianization in France
Against the Revolution
From Whence the Fury?
A Tale of Two Frances
Anti-Clericalism in France
From Whence Consensus?
The Lost Dream of a Sacred Civilization
Secularization and the Mother of God
“The Heart of Jesus is Regenerating Us”
Yearning for the Transcendent
XX Christendom in Ireland
The Miracle That is Ireland
Personal Encounters with Catholic Ireland
A Glance at Irish History
“The Ireland That We Have Dreamed Of”
The Tragedy of Ireland
A Sacramental Perspective
Sexual Abuse by the Clergy
On Being Appalled
XXI Christendom or Secular Materialism?
The New Hierarchy
The (Catholic) Road Less Travelled
Some Personal Reflections on New Millennium England
A Wall of Ideology
The Threat to Christianity Itself
XXII Renewing Christendom
The Sleep of the Church
Being Awake, Being Catholic
Toward a New Counter-Revolution
Re-Building Catholic Culture
Evangelization—Caring about People
Christendom—an Unashamed Supernaturalism
A Farewell from Ireland
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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