Enthusiasm Charles de Foucauld priests and nuns

priests and nuns

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Enthusiasm Charles de Foucauld priests and nunsBy Ronald Knox Enthusiasm, in the religious sense, is more akin to fanaticism than fervor. As Monsignor Ronald Knox describes, it is that recurring situation in Church history in which men and women, seek to be less and less of the world and more and more attentive to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Their assumption is audacious yet simple: grace does not perfect nature; it destroys and replaces it. The inevitable result: separation, secession,