That must seem wildly out of place on this thread but whenever I see a piece by/about Mario Cuomo or Fr. Charles Curran, I am reminded why I canceled my National Review subscription. I cancelled it because Buckley promoted these heretics and provided them space in Nat Rev to promote their "nuanced" (girlie-man-speak for heresy) ideas on abortion, homosexuality, masturbation blah, blah, damnable blah.
And I will never forget the "Mater, Si. Magistra, No" abomination.
Heretics like these never tire of demanding the Christian Church imitate the hedonism, worldliness and materialism of secularism.
All their "advice" to Holy Mother Church can be distilled to Choose death.. The "culture" from which they draw their ideas to reform the Christian Church IS dead. And I say let's leave the dead to be buried with the dead.
Surely you aren't attributing "Mater, Si. Magistra, No" to Buckley? Here's what he actually said about the encyclical (he didn't say that):
William F. Buckley, Jr. National Review (26 August 1961) 114. "Actually, National Review has made no substantive criticism of Mater et Magistra. Simplistic interpretations in secular terms are notoriously unwise. It merely pointed out that 'coming at this particular time in history,' parts of it may be considered as trivial."William F. Buckley, Jr. National Review (23 September 1961) 188. "The editorial in question spoke not one word of criticism of the intrinsic merit of Mater et Magistra. Our disappointment was confined to the matter of emphasis, and timing, and by implication, to the document's exploitability by the enemies of Christendom, a premonition rapidly confirmed by the Encyclical's obscene cooption by such declared enemies of the spiritual order as the New Statesman and the Manchester Guardian, which hailed the conversion of the Pope to Socialism!"