[NYer]

— George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.

[NYer]

Ping!

[frogjerk]

Thank you for posting the whole thing

[Salvation]

**In the United States, the progressives have also been steadily losing their grip at the national, diocesan, and local-parish levels. Various lay-renewal movements have become vital and self-consciously orthodox factors in Catholic life, and a new generation of priests and bishops, many of whom look explicitly to John Paul II as their model of ecclesiastical leadership, have come to the fore. For the past half-decade or more, the Catholic bishops of the United States, following the pope’s lead, have increasingly stressed the importance of Catholic identity, by which they understand fidelity to Catholic teaching, in confronting an increasingly hostile cultural and legal/political environment. That problem has been considerably exacerbated by the Obama administration, which many Catholic progressives welcomed with loud hosannas, and for whose regulatory assault on Catholic health-care and social-service agencies progressives have provided cover, often by implausible appeals to Catholic social doctrine.**

Very telling paragraph. Shall we notify the anti-Catholics? Nah, I’m joking.

[Wuli]

ping

[Jeff Chandler]

Mark my word man there is no uglier species on the face of the earth than progressed Catholics, mean, frivol, ungainly, inarticulate, venomous, and bursting at the seams with progress into the secular cities and Teilhardian subways. The Ottavianis was bad but these are infinitely worse. You wait and see.

Indeed.

[jboot]

Speaking as a Protestant, I am mightily encouraged by the Catholic re-embrace of orthodoxy. We all benefit when the church is unafraid to voice her foundational creeds.

The "poor churchmice" have recourse in the dreary progressive mainline Protestant churches. The sacraments of Feminism, Abortion and Homosexuality are still celebrated there. Let them go there, and be comforted. Or whatever it is that those "churches" do.