Pentecost Without the Supernatural: A Modernist Meditation on Feelings, Not Faith
VaticanNews portal (May 23, 2026) publishes a reflection by Jenny Kraska for Pentecost Sunday that reduces the descent of the Holy Ghost to a psychological exercise in self-esteem, entirely omitting the supernatural reality of the Church, the sacramental order, the damnation of sin, and the absolute necessity of the true Faith for salvation. Kraska’s article, framed as a meditation on John 20:22-23 and the Pentecost event, offers nothing but naturalistic platitudes about “new beginnings,” “hope,” and “mercy” stripped of all doctrinal content — a perfect specimen of the modernist dissolution of revealed truth into sentimental humanism.









