Cor Jesu Sacratissimum
By Roger Buck, Angelico Press, £17.50
Roger Buck, a convert to the Church after decades-long association with New Age spirituality, has written a serious work. It is partly an autobiographical reflection on why people are drawn down false spiritual paths, and partly an appeal to Catholics to practise more of the unplumbed riches of their faith.
It is an excellent guide to those who repudiate a materialistic view of life but struggle to free themselves from erroneous notions of “self-realisation” and other phrases of the therapy culture. Such emphasis on the self is, as Buck knows from experience, a way of evading the Person of Christ and his call to conversion. It is turning from truth towards a series of half-truths and false truths which can never provide real solace and nourishment for the soul.
