Catholic complacency is indeed responsible for most of today’s problems. And to think it took only 40 years of Vatican II to start getting close to the truth! Forty years of teaching do-what-you-want feel-good-ism and (at best) watered-down doctrine.
his is a thorough and stinging repudiation of Cdl. Bernardin’s “seamless garment, without naming him.
I only wish Abp Chaput had turned his words on the priests and bishops who gave cover during these years to cafeteria Catholics.
You cannot cover up scandals of Faith.