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  • Desperate Churchmice (The Desperate Collapse of the Catholic Left)

    11/01/2011 1:57:36 PM PDT · by NYer · 16 replies · 1+ views
    NRO ^ | October 31, 2011 | GEORGE WEIGEL
    No, the pope is not supporting Occupy Wall Street. It’s been a bad three and a half decades for self-styled “progressive” Catholics.First, there was John Paul II, whom many in that camp habitually labeled a charismatic reactionary. Yet the Polish pope was a hero all over the world during an epic pontificate that bent history’s arc in a more humane direction, and did so without the aid of liberation theology. John Paul’s funeral Mass on April 8, 2005, became, in the apt phrase of NBC anchor Brian Williams, “the human event of a generation,” a moniker unlikely to be attached...