Letters

Nihilism (letter)

Robert Prinzen-Wood

Contents - Dec 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry? - Michael Gilchrist US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Gone fishing: Catholic Earthcare Australia adopts discredited Green agenda - Pat Byrne Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first - Cardinal George Pell English language: Will Rome ensure the completion of an improved Mass translation? - William Oddie Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum on the liturgical rights of the faithful - CDF New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith - Fr John Walter Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary - Martin Tobin Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education Letters: Orthodoxy succeeds (letter) - Fr Adrian Head Letters: Seminary reforms (letter) - Fr Peter Thompson CM Letters: Election result (letter) - Maureen Federico Letters: Liturgical development (letter) - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Letters: Catholic youth (letter) - Robert Denahy Letters: Graham Greene a Catholic? (letter) - Malcolm Mackinnon Letters: Mass translation (letter) - Leo McManus Letters: 'Fem-speak' (letter) - C.V.Phillips Letters: Misunderstanding over 'Come As You Are' (letter) - Peter Hannigan Letters: Call to holiness (letter) - Mark Calleja Letters: Abortion (letter) - Maryse Usher Letters: Nihilism (letter) - Robert Prinzen-Wood Poetry: The Salami Treatment - Bruce Dawe Books: Decoding Da Vinci, by Amy Welborn - Anthony Cappello (reviewer) Books: Theology of the Church, by Cardinal Charles Journet - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: Making Sense of Private Revelations, by Fr Paul Newton - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Books: Architects of the Culture of Death, by Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker - Jodie Brown (reviewer) Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world - Pope John Paul II

The media and others would have us believe that the biggest threat to our culture and civilisation is the terrorist. This is not true.

The energy exerted by those who recently pushed for same-sex marriages is indeed an example of the fanatical nihilism which seeks to invert moral values and persuade us all that what is evil is good. This is the today's greatest threat.

Yet because of its illusion of moral fervour, such an approach can appear rational and even enlightened. Note the respect that much of the media gave to the so-called equal-rights advocates in the recent attempt to introduce same-sex marriages.

Notice also the greatest attack coming from these fanatical nihilists is directed at the Catholic Church. It is only within the Body of Christ that true love, true humanity and the true ordering of values can be nurtured.

May God give us the grace to withstand such attacks now and in the future.

ROBERT PRINZEN-WOOD
Regents Park, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 11 (December 2004 - January 2005), p. 16