Australian prelate: ‘modernity has forgotten how to love’
October 24, 2014
In an article posted on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the newly appointed Archbishop of Sydney has written about G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas, recent popes, and the new evangelization.
“The biggest challenge for the family today is not in the realm of the hot-button issues that gained media attention around the recent Synod, but the much more fundamental problem that modernity has forgotten how to love,” writes Archbishop-designate Anthony Fisher, Cardinal George Pell’s successor. “In particular, I think modernity struggles with any kind of love that goes beyond feelings: especially the cross-shaped, self-spending Easter sort of loving rather than the heart-shaped, self-pleasing Valentine's sort of loving.”
Citing St. John Paul II’s theology of the body and Pope Benedict’s talks at World Youth Day in Sydney, the prelate pledged to make “our young people a central focus on my pastoral attention.”
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Further information:
- Speaking the Truth Lovingly - Archbishop-elect Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP (Archdiocese of Sydney)
- Returning to Jesus Christ: How the Gospel Addresses a Culture that has Forgotten How to Love (ABC)
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