Indeed this is my point, we are in a precarious time Jude a time that without diagnosis could lead many of the faithful to dispair, because as we attempt to re-connect with out Tradition many whow think they are being faithful are just repeating novelity. And woody this is why the past is so important. You cannot know where you are going until you know where you have been. Christ is the benchmark for the human equation. This is why good Catholics should always be suspicious of novelty. Novelty is not always bad, but we are a church of Tradition, so something new must be viewed with caution. It may be that it is a new synthesis of the modern with the ancient. (Taking the Tradition and applying it to our present age in a faithful way, or it could be be novelty for the sake of novelty.) As one friend of mine in Seminary told me after months of explaining things to him I just diecovered all your ideas are not original. (What had happened was another friend was concerned about the heresy this Guy was spouting and gave him a copy of 'Theology for Beginners', a book back then I had not seen, though now I reccommend it with its 'theology and Sanity' by the same author. Having read them a few years after ordination I must say both are great books.) My response to him was of course it is not novel, it is the Catholic faith, if I invented it, it would only be as good as my limited mind. Then his response is you were quoting this book. I said Mr Sheed did not invent this, it is the Catholic Faith. If Anything I was paraphrasing Fr. Paul Pearson who taught me this in his Class 'mystery of Christ' with a little from Dr. Susan Mathews intro to theology, and a heavy dose of Fr. Hardon's Catechism. If my synthesis came out in the same place as Frank Sheed it only shows the Catholicism in it. Of course with the same variables and logic one should land the same way. No concept of Tradition, I felt for this poor guy.

So one must always return to the Krygma but we must also remember that it breathes through guidance of the Holy Spirit in Church teaching. If we don't see this, we miss the pnumatological factor in the Church, and loose all sense of Tradition. The Holy Spirit guides the Church, and for this reason rejecting Tradition is what many moderns have done in Catholicism. (Neo-Protestantism within Catholicism.)