He's got a reputation for not mincing words, but I will point out that a friend of mine had dealt with him in a professional setting (in court) and never went back to that Latin Mass again.
I don't know anything else about Ferrara, but I am convinced that for many people traditional Catholicism is a symptom of an underlying mental disorder.
OK. The Wavy Gravy part is amusing....rhetorically. Points for comedic effect. ...Although many of today's cultural casualties of neo-modernism may not be familiar with the name, image, waistline, or damaged brain cells. Still, a fat acid clown from the 1960s would make a good poster boy for some ecclesial antics in the US Church since then. (footnote: Although a critic of the sillier and clownish varieties of neo-modernism, I am not a schismatic - just so that's clear) That that great cultural vortex which spanned between, say, Easy Rider and Saturday Night Fever had parallels in ecclesiastical subculture was unfortunate. If the point were pressed, Wavy Gravy may have been rather tame compared with more recent specimens of clerical counter-culture. In the realm of the secular and the banal...we now have...Eminem. Something to ponder for those seeking "dynamic and evolutionary" concepts of "reality."
Indeed. I love this newspaper. Enormously interesting and educational. I encourage everyone interested in Catholicism to subscribe.
I know the Church is having a hard time but it sometimes appears hopeless to see how the situation can be stabilized.
I graduated from Notre Dame in the early 50's and can tell you that that particularly notable University is a shadow of what it once was spiritually and truly mirrors the troubles of the Church at large,,,,Homesexual clubs etc.
Its all too sad.
But perhaps there is hope somewhere as the whole entity has been throught this...and worse ...in the preceeding centuries.