I am not quite sure how I grew up Catholic and went to a Catholic school for eight years and never heard of the Ignatian concept of “disordered affections.” Well, on second thought, I likely just wasn’t paying attention.
The concept is, as I understand it (forgive me, St. Ignatius), that sin is not so much identifying two piles of clearly good and clearly bad, and then playing in the “bad” pile, but not ordering things correctly. Recently, I heard David Brooks give this simple example: A friend tells me something in confidence, and I share it later at a dinner party. I have put my desire to be popular with my dinner guests over my friendship – disordered affection.
Doing some research I found this definition: “Disordered attachments are those things (objects, experiences, activities, even other people) who become the focus of our desires and, consequently our time on this earth, rather than seeking the will and companionship of God.”
As Scooby Doo would say – “Ruh Roh.” I can see this is going to take some time and thought.
It occurs to me... 