[Domestic Church]

"Once I found a rather detailed story about Bella Dodd..."

If you still have the link please post it...just tell folks it's for discussion but they'll need their salt shakers,lol. We should be able to pick through it. Isn't Pope John XXIII Blessed now? (So hard to keep up.)

About Merton, I always liked what I read but I read him simultaneously with St.John of the Cross, St.Therese, and the CCC when it came out...maybe his writings need to be couched in Carmelite tradition? Or maybe I just liked the sprinkling of Carmelite thought. I never thought of him as a blatant socialist but you are right about the leaning leftwards in his thought. Do you think Weakland might have liked the cachet of Merton or found it politically correct and useful? Do you think he actually knew him to any degree? This is the first link I've heard between these two.

[american colleen]

Here are the links you asked for. I hope no one accuses me of trying to weaken the faith, malign the Pope or of being an extreme trad SSPXer. Cause I ain't. I'm only an orthodox Catholic, like most of us here, trying to understand the history of the Church and doing my best with the grace of God to live the faith in Jesus Christ. Lately it seems that a disclaimer needs to be written for what some FReepers post for discussion and refutation. Sheesh.

"Present at the Demolition
An interview with Dr. Alice von Hildebrand
A Philosopher Remembers and Reminds"

"Catechism on the Errors of Vatican II"

As an addendum: The greater truth for me is that the Pope is Peter's successor and the Vicar of Christ.