There is no doubt that the religious phenomenon involves our whole being, rational faculty and feeling. Our Catholic faith affects everything we are, and it could not be otherwise. But we must be very …Altro
There is no doubt that the religious phenomenon involves our whole being, rational faculty and feeling. Our Catholic faith affects everything we are, and it could not be otherwise. But we must be very careful about suffocating religion in sentiment, which very often results in sentimentalism. While we can accept that a certain part of the mystical body accentuates this aspect, we cannot ensure that this becomes the prevailing principle that animates our faith. Blessed Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855) already observed this in his History of Impiety when he said: "Benjamin Constant pretends to demonstrate that the religious sentiment, natural to man, is the principle of all religions, which, in his eyes, are no more than manifestations of that sentiment. Because that sentiment tries to manifest itself, but never succeeds in expressing itself completely, because all the external forms it finds are inadequate for it, and there always remains something immense, something infinite, which cannot …Altro
