Man, I love me that Diogenes at Catholic World Report, who comments today on U.S. Catholic magazine's turning to superannuated liberals under whose intellectual leadership the Catholic Church has gone kaflooey. Muses Uncle Di: "It's all but incredible that the very physicians whose treatments turned a healthy organism into a corpse should continue to be consulted on palliative care."
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism on the march
Friday November 30, 2007
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Obviously Jesuits have become the official whipping boy of CC (one or two excepted, of course).
Which means, like the McCarthyist era ("Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?"), anyone who has been associated with Jesuits ...
kaflooey!
as in "the Catholic Church has gone kaflooey"...
but...
I disagree with what "has gone" implies...
that the CC was not "kaflooey" at some point in the past...
it seems reasonable that the CC has been off base since day one...
there...
I made my point even without using "Myth"...
faith hope love joy peace to all...
I tend to be with Erin on this one. When a wave of tenured retirements hits in a few years the whole flavor will change. Actually it has already started. And none to soon. At best all too many of the classes of the 60's and 70's were failures; at worst too many were monsters.
BTW, Rod, what exactly DO you have against therapy?
And, since we're in the business lately of trying to deduce people's "real" identities behind their online ones, you wouldn't happen to be Tom Cruise blogging in disguise, would you?
(I'm kidding. At least sort of.)
Um, is that "four popes" suggestion all that different from the four patriarchates into which the church got divided early on? Rome, Constantinople and two others I forget? The Orthodox say they're co-equal, Rome says not. What else is new?
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