Worldliness
Watchtower of Errors: doctrines named clearly from the safety of truth so they can be resisted.
is conformity to the city of man: its loves, fears, amusements, honors, comforts, ambitions, and standards. It rarely begins with open . It begins when Babylon is allowed to educate the household's tastes.
What This Error Does
It makes souls live as citizens of Babylon while speaking Catholic words. Screens, fashions, jokes, ambitions, purchases, entertainments, and social approval become a catechism.
forms pilgrims. makes Catholics comfortable in exile and teaches them to fear being strange more than being unfaithful.
How To Respond
Renounce the world in concrete habits: time, dress, speech, entertainment, money, ambition, and household rule. Guard the household gate and teach children that Catholic life is not the world's life with prayers attached.