Pagan Influences

Pagan Influences

PAGAN INFLUENCES

BASIC R.C. BELIEF From Knights of Ciolumbus Correspondence Course, Lesson 10, page 16. “Plato, for example, established an outlook on life that lasted hundreds of years and which, in many aspects, influenced the thinking of the early Christian Church. . . Some of (Aristotle’s) principles are followed even today.”

POST VATICAN II Richard McBrien, Notre Dame theologian, “The conversion of Constantine also allowed the Church to be less defensive about pagan culture, to learn from it and be enriched by it.”

CHRISTIAN COMMENT All one has to do is to study the history of the sacramentals of the Roman Catholic Church to see evidence of this pagan influence. See articles concerning the sacramentals.