[Nihil Obstat]

great article. Fr. Neuhaus is all class.

[NYer]

You may recall that Raymond Arroyo invited Fr. Neuhaus to assist him during the Conclave, following the death of JPII. He provided some excellent commentary. When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger walked stepped out from behind the curtains on the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square, Fr. Neuhaus commented:

"With the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the curtain has fallen on the long-running drama of the myth of "the spirit of Vatican II," in which the revolution mandated by the Council was delayed by the timidity of Paul VI and temporarily derailed for twenty-plus years by the regressive John Paul II, as the Church inexorably moved toward the happy denouement of "the next pope" who would resume the course of progressive accommodation to the wisdom of the modern world. The curtain has fallen and the audience has long since left, except for a few diehards who say they are giving the new management a hundred days to revive the show. Some of them are perhaps thinking of going to another theater. There are worse things than not being a Catholic--when it is made unmistakably clear that being a Catholic is not what one is."

A classic!

[dsc]

"great article. Fr. Neuhaus is all class."

I called him once on the telephone. He didn't seem to be as aggravated by modernism as I am.