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Instead we have replaced the content with links to the following
Vatican documents:-
THE VATICAN REPORT SECTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: A PASTORAL
CHALLENGE May 3rd, 1986 FOREWORD
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/NEWAGE/VATREPRT.TXT
Jesus Christ The Bearer Of The Water Of Life - A Christian reflection on the New Age
PRESENTATIONS OF HOLY SEE'S DOCUMENT ON NEW AGE
Dominus Iesus
For a listing of Cases filed against persons who have criticized
this movement, see:-
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mgarde/courts.htm
The Spirit of Relativism
"How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades,
how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking… The small
boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by
these waves—thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to
liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical
individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from
agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are
created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with
cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf Eph 4, 14). Having a
clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today
as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be
tossed and “swept along by every wind of teaching”, looks like the
only attitude (acceptable) to today’s standards. We are moving
towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything
as certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and
one’s own desires.
However, we have a different goal: the Son of God, true man. He is
the measure of true humanism. Being an “Adult” means having a
faith which does not follow the waves of today’s fashions or the
latest novelties. A faith which is deeply rooted in friendship with
Christ is adult and mature. It is this friendship which opens us up to
all that is good and gives us the knowledge to judge true from false,
and deceit from truth. We must become mature in this adult faith; we
must guide the flock of Christ to this faith. And it is this
faith—only faith—which creates unity and takes form in love. On
this theme, Saint Paul offers us some beautiful words—in contrast to
the continual ups and downs of those were are like infants, tossed
about by the waves: (he says) make truth in love, as the basic formula
of Christian existence. In Christ, truth and love coincide. To the
extent that we draw near to Christ, in our own life, truth and love
merge. Love without truth would be blind; truth without love would be
like “a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal” (1 Cor 13,1)."
Cardinal Ratzinger the day before at the opening of the very
conclave that was to elect him as Pope Benedict XVI
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