Let’s take the solemn dress code away from the Goths, the Rosaries away from the gangs, the blood & death fixation away from the scene-kids, the art away from the academics, the Latin away from the Harry Potter geeks, the bi-location away from Siegfried & Roy, the exorcisms away from Art Bell, the Angels away from Hollywood, the bling away from the players, the stigmatas away from the Arquettes, and the ghosts away from the new agers. In Denver there’s a beautiful downtown cathedral called the Church of the Holy Ghost. Who’s not curious about what goes on in there?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 10:06 AM
June 8th, 2010 | 11:01 am
Isn’t this post an example of “crossing the line” here at First Things?
Whatever it is, it’s outstanding.
I like that radical (or is it reactionary?) fellow, Joe Escalente, and if the Church ever returns to the truth of God, born in the pneumatic, theophanic revelation and experienced in a noetic reality, and if that church ever chooses to re-embrace those visions that constitute history while summoning the courage to teach the truth of God and to stand against the hypostatizing distortions of modernity…I’m back. Given, of course, that the question of co-redemption is open to public discussion.
June 10th, 2010 | 8:04 pm
One of the commentators on the Escalente post praises the Legion of Christ.
It would be good if you indicated your agreement with Joseph Bottum’s recent condemnation of Father Marcial Maciel and of Father Richard John Neuhaus’s support for Maciel.
I assume that you will agree that John Paul II’s support of Maciel was a great sin of the Catholic Church.
June 11th, 2010 | 4:21 pm
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June 11th, 2010 | 9:50 pm
Larry Arnhart:
I’m not going to get into the Legion of Christ issue, because it’s not relevant to James Poulos’ post. I will simply say this: if a writer were require to state his or her agreement or disagreement with every comment on every article to which they linked, no one could use the internet.
June 13th, 2010 | 12:50 pm
MByrne,
You say that the Legion of Christ issue is not relevant to Poulos’ post.
His post claims that conservative Catholicism should be powerfully attractive to human beings.
But doesn’t the moral crisis of conservative Catholicism under the papacies of John Paul and Benedict–as manifest in the priestly pedophilia and Legion of Christ scandals–create a problem?
Bottum’s article in the latest FIRST THINGS is one good attempt to face up to this problem.
Isn’t this a “relevant” issue for conservative Catholics?
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