[Siobhan]

Deal W. Hudson is publisher and editor of CRISIS Magazine, a Catholic monthly published in Washington, DC. His articles and comments have been published in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, National Review, Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Village Voice, Roll Call, National Journal, The Economist, and by the Associated Press. He appears regularly on television shows such as NBC Nightly News, One-on One with John McLaughlin, C-Span's Washington Journal, News Talk, NET's Capitol Watch, The Beltway Boys, The Religion and Ethics Newsweekly on PBS, and radio programs such as "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio. He was associate professor of Philosophy at Fordham University from 1989 to 1995 and was a visiting professor at New York University for five years. He taught for nine years at Mercer University in Atlanta, where he was chair of the philosophy department. He has published many reviews and articles as well as four books: Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend (Mercer, 1988); The Future of Thomism (Notre Dame, 1992); Sigrid Undset On Saints and Sinners (Ignatius, 1994); and Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

[Siobhan]

Deal Hudson on Vatican III

Ping against AmChurch...

[COBOL2Java]

The orthodox dioceses are vibrant and bursting with vocations. Just take a trip to Denver or Northern Virginia if you doubt it.

Arlington Diocese Bump!

[yendu bwam]

We must search for a coherent and persuasive moral stance on sexual morality: marriage and its support systems, family planning, reconciliation after divorce, homosexual activity, natural law

Try the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You'll find what you're looking for there.

[stands2reason]

But the truth is something quite different. The mainline liberal Protestant churches are fading away... some predict that the Methodist and Episcopal churches may not even exist a century from now. Which Protestant denominations are growing? The conservative, orthodox, evangelical churches.

The answer to the question "Why?" is simple. Moral relativists don't need church. All they want is for church to leave them alone. Sure, they want the church to accept them. But that doesn't mean that they're going to go. I mean, c'mon, God certainly understands if they don't want to drag themselves out of bed every Sunday morning. God is not about torturing people! (/sarcasm)

[Cicero]

Never happen. Cardinal Martini, whom they hoped to elect as the next pope, is retiring. As for the National Catholic Reporter, its readers are aging along with the Baby Boomer generation. With luck, they will all soon go to their reward in the next world and NCR will no longer have any subscribers. I would class this article as comedy rather than as a serious warning of things to come.

[NYer]

Who were these "Catholics" chosen to represent the opinions of the universal Church? We're never told. Everything was conducted anonymously. But NCR does tease us a bit, saying that the respondents included one cardinal and three bishops (the remainder consisted of nuns, priests, and laity).

How tempting to conjecture! The cardinal? I'd put money on Roger Mahony. And, judging from interviews with religious by our local media, I would submit that the others were from the Albany diocese. This weekend, we saw Bishop Hubbard interviewed by the Fox affiliate. Asked about the possibility of married clergy and female priests, he projected this would happen with the next pope. Only this evening, the local CBS affiliate interviewed the Director of Catholic Schools, a nun. She scoffed at the media for suggesting that homosexuality had anything to do with the church scandal. She said that "statistics" had already disproved this notion, but quoted no sources or numbers. Oh yes, we have one more "claim to fame". The Albany diocese produced Fr. Richard Vosko, aka "the wreckovator" who has cut a swathe of church & cathedral destruction across the fruited plains.

Viva Il Papa!

[redhead]

""Respondents wanted the widest possible participation of all the church in the next council, laity -- single and married -- and women religious and priests present as a group in proportion to the number of bishops present. A cardinal in a developing country wrote that all religions should be invited 'and have the right to vote.'"

I'm not gonna scream...I'm not gonna scream....I'm not...AAAAIIIEEEEEE!!!!

" It means shifting the weight of power away from Rome and church pulpits to the people of God."

In other words, "Goodbye, ROMAN Catholic Church." This is what they have been angling for for the last 40 years. Every time they twist the words of the Doctrine and the Scriptures, every time they ignore the words of the Pope, every time they crack down on the VICTIMS and give the PERPS a free ride on the pocketbooks of the Faithful, every time they put one of "their" men in a high office, they are chipping away at the Roman Catholic Church. It has never been their intention to simply start a NEW church created in their own image, which they would be perfectly free to do. I would even cede to them all the like-thinking "catholics" that infest the Roman Catholic Church at this time. ("Take them! Take them ALL!") It has always been since its beginning in the 50's, a concerted, careful, and deliberate campaign to destroy the Roman Catholic Church.

[katnip]

I will not allow myself to worry about this..

I will not allow myself to worry about this...

I will not allow myself to worry about this...

[Timesink]

Dream on, NCR! Pope John Paul has personally appointed the vast majority of the men currently serving on the Council of Cardinals, and he didn't exactly pick a bunch of bleeding-hearts. The next pope will be just as conservative as JPII is.

[maryz]

I read somewhere (back in the 70s?) that when Vatican II convened, the leftwing activists had their act together and came prepared -- that they pushed through much of their agenda while the majority of bishops were still finding their seats and getting used to the Latin.

[Petronski]

Many dioceses in America are already in open schism on many issues, why NOT try to make it official?

[Cap'n Crunch]

Every time I see the enemies of the Church (internal or external) rising up I always think of the dream of St. John Bosco "The two columns in the sea"

The two columns were the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin. St. John Bosco said of the two columns: 'the two columns of salvation seem to be devotion to Mary Most Holy and to the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist' & "The most serious trials for the Church are near at hand. That which has been so far is almost nothing in the face of that which must befall. Her enemies are represented by the ships that tried to sink the principal ship if they could. Only two means are left to save her amidst so much confusion: DEVOTION TO MARY MOST HOLY and FREQUENT COMMUNION, making use of every means and doing our best to practice them and having them practiced everywhere and by everybody."

Mary, Queen of all saints, pray for us.

[Junior]

T'ain't gonna happen. The minute the Church cowtows to the whims of poplar opinion is the moment the Church ceases to exist.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

The smoke will enter from within.The evil is blatent with the liberal destuction agenda. The evil is rampant. We know who wins in the end. Keep the faith.

[lavaroise]

Man, what are these over-imagitnative idiots smoking?

[Salvation]

The Catholic church is still growing and learning from Vatican II -- which brought the Catholic Church into the modern times. We do not need a Vatican III.

[Antoninus]

Vatican III? Ha, ha! That's a good one. I haven't heard such a bad idea since some liberal crypto-commie floated the idea of a new "Constitutional Convention."

I will only favor a new Church council AFTER all the liberals, marxists, pedophiles, homosexuals, modernists, masons, and atheists are expunged from the hierarchy.