H/T Pertinacious Papist
October
31, 2015
The
brain-blowing combination of asserting that what is not Catholic
teaching is somehow Catholic teaching and then shrieking like a
frightened schoolgirl when the word "heresy" is uttered is
what the American Catholic/Jesuit theological academy is all about
Dorothy
Cummings McLean
All believing Catholics who seek to understand what it is they
believe are Catholic theologians, which means that Ross Douthat is a
Catholic theologian. His academic critics are ... academics. Some of
them may be Catholic theologians, but I wouldn't assume
that—especially not if they got their training at Boston College...
"Own
your heresy" tweeted
Douthat, and Father James Martin, SJ seemed
to throw up his hands
in holy horror. Oh,
how irresponsible! Oh, how potentially damaging to a career! Oh,
how the CDF will swoop down like a wolf upon the fold. Except
it won't, and it almost never does—and they're too busy packing up
Monsignor Charamsa's office right now anyway.
The
brain-blowing combination of asserting that what is not Catholic
teaching is somehow Catholic teaching and then shrieking like a
frightened schoolgirl when the word "heresy" is uttered is
what the American Catholic/Jesuit theological academy is all about,
and I should know. I was in it for two of the most miserable
years of my life.
As
the Affair Douthat unfolds, I keep attaching faces to the
names I hadn't heard or seen for many years. One of them belongs to
an active homosexual who brought his boyfriend along on the
departmental retreat and shared a room with him...
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/4333/two_years_among_the_liberal_theologians.aspx
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/4333/two_years_among_the_liberal_theologians.aspx