THE SACRAMENTS AND MATERIALISM

Since the beginning of the month, David Delaney of Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex has published an interesting series about how the sacraments of Catholic faith accord to the reality of the human condition and put the lie to the materialist assumptions so many of us, including the faithful, make about man, the universe, and his relationship to it.  In this so-called age of reason in which science is the epitome of knowledge, materialist beliefs have been tightly woven into the intellectual fabric of modern culture.  I know for myself, who was never hostile to a belief in God (merely indifferent to the idea for much of my life), materialism is a hard habit of thought to kick.  Articles like Delaney's are an excellent corrective.  Click here for the first installment in his series.