[ultima ratio]

These are NOT religious positions that any Catholic needs pay any attention to, but are the political and social views of a man who is clearly an arch-conservative. There is nothing doctrinally Catholic about them. How could they be? Catholic women have been founding and attending Catholic institutions of higher learning for centuries. No pope or council has ever proscribed their doing so. So Williamson can argue the issue all he wants--it is only his opinion and has no moral force.

Neither is his notion that God has punished America with the collapse of the World Trade Center any much more different than Reverend Jerry Falwell's comments along the same line right after 9/11. This is what religious leaders sometimes do--they get things wrong--much as the Pope did recently in condemning the war in Iraq and siding with Saddam. Nobody thinks this was a matter of faith and morals.

You need to understand the difference betweem here between promulgating Catholic doctrine and mere opinion. These are opinions. They are no more valid than the average opinion of any priest or bishop or pope giving a sermon and using contemporary events and issues to make a general religious statement. They are sometimes off the mark. But such meanderings have no significance as official teachings. Do you really think what Williamson says about 9/11 or the Sound of Music matters to orthodox Catholics?

[sinkspur]

Do you really think what Williamson says about 9/11 or the Sound of Music matters to orthodox Catholics?

If my bishop's politics sounded like those of Lyndon LaRouche, I'd be a bit concerned.

[Theosis]

"No pope or council has ever proscribed their doing so. So Williamson can argue the issue all he wants--it is only his opinion and has no moral force."

Would my children know the difference if I were to have them confirmed by Williamson? Thanks, but no thanks. I think I will stick to the indult.

[sitetest]

Dear ultima,

"These are NOT religious positions that any Catholic needs pay any attention to, but are the political and social views of a man who is clearly an arch-conservative."

You're in denial, ultima.

I'll keep praying for you.


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