We really are going backwards or progressive Catholics of the National Catholic Reporter type are. Backward, backwards, backward in time or as on the daytime serial that has a cult following with us baby-boomers or parallel time as in Dark Shadows, a la Barnabas.
When I was vocation director in the 80’s and 90’s the enneagram was very popular. Those going backwards in the Church are trying to relive the 80’s and 90’s. This ditty is in Saturday’s National Catholic Reporter:
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That article was an amazing read. Not only in the dismissive way that person drove uncritically past his fascination with astrology as if it was a reasonable alternative to behavioral science rather than the superstitious equivalent to racial profiling (well, you KNOW he’s a Taurus and you know how THEY all think). And while we’re on epistemology, the use a modeling device such as an enneagram allows for a very basic organization of information in a limited way at the initial steps of learning. It is hardly descriptive of the full breadth of human nature. The popular application of the tool seems to be designed to satisfy the impatience or intellectual frustrations of the users. When you are holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So I recommend the tool be renamed, homonymously, to fit its mode of use as an any-a-gram.
What next? An artcle on seeking the will of the Holy Spirit through numerology and ouija boards?
A few years a(go, Fr. Mitch Pacwa, a Jesuit who is actually faithful, published a little book called Catholics and the New Age. In it, he deals with a lot of the nonsense that we have been force-fed since we opened up the windows of the Church to the world (and welcomed all the demons in). You can include the Enneagram.
Back in the 1990's I went to Confession. Let me rephrase that, I TRIED to go to confession, and, as is the case in so many parishes the priest showed up very, very late. I knocked on the confessional door while I was waiting and it was unlocked. This was one of those modern "reconciliation rooms" where you had the option of going face-to-face. I looked behind the screen where the priest would sit and noticed a paperback book that had a bookmark in it, evidently for the priest to read while waiting to hear confessions. It was a book on the Enneagram. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. I was about to confess my sins to someone in utter denial of what some sins actually are or worse, was in a state of grave sin himself.
I'll be blunt and put it to you straight. The Enneagram is bullsh_t. Horoscopes are bullsh_t. Pachamana (I reject, rebuke and renounce you) is bullsh_t. Occult and pagan practices are nothing to play with. When the ordained clergy in our Church are playing with this stuff, we are in SERIOUS trouble.
Jerome rocks. 👍⭐️⭐️⭐️
The enneagram is one of the deceptive practices used by the Evil One to seduce those who, having darkened intellect and weak faith and lacking in the necessary capacity for discernment possessed by those strong in their faith, are all too amenable to coming under the spell and attraction of his nefarious designs. It has an esotericism about it and a risk of the sin of pride, since those who become practitioners of it can see themselves as 'set apart" from those less enlightened in understanding and accepting it.
https://aleteia.org/2021/06/19/can-catholics-use-the-enneagram-personality-system/
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/enneagram-versus-the-catholic-church-6070
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