“You realize this is a liberal, writing in a toxic liberal mag, proposing (except for his comment on Scripture study, which is fine), that the solution to the problems caused by liberalism over the last 40 years is ... [drum roll] ... even more liberalism?”
Reese is a Jesuit, what do you expect? He taught at the Jesuit high school that I graduated from. We called him Peewee.
The article is good but the his conclusion of what the Church must do in response to the exodus is laughable. His solution to people being tired of being fed pablum is to give them gruel.
Those who leave for evangelical churches are not leaving because the gruel tastes better over there. They are leaving because they think it is where they will find real meat and real drink.
Just curious, but what school were you and Peewee at? I went to St. Iggy in Chi-town. Our Jebbies were just as avante-gard as yours, no doubt. How did he get his nickname? I am curious about him because I challenged one of his articles in a letter to our diocesan newspaper in Hawaii.