Msgr. Pope on the Dangers of Voluntarism

"Part of the reason for the mess we're in today is a philosophy called voluntarism. Some mistake this word for volunteerism, which refers to the use of volunteers or the willingness to be a volunteer, offering one's services in some capacity without compensation. Voluntarism is something quite different and is of the darkness.

"Voluntarism is the view that the will overrules the intellect and that truth is something asserted or willed rather than discovered by the intellect and proposed to the will for obedience. Voluntarism holds that something is true because one says it is so."

In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish, Washington, DC) reflected on the dangers of engaging in voluntarism and on the importance of, when striving to remain sane in times like these, to "run to the true God, our Father, who loves us."

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Community in Mission: Voluntarism, a Critical Error of Our Times (11 APR 19)