I am grateful to Our Lord, (and a plug here for
my Guardian Angel), my mother and the Sisters of Notre Dame De Namur for
instilling in me a clear sense of the transcendent, āabsolutely otherā Triune
God of revelation as I was growing up in the 1950s. I have made mention of my
childhood religious formation in the preface; my gratitude stems from the
Fatherās gifts of the workings of baptismal grace, a mother who āknew how to
motherā in a Catholic family, and devout religious sisters who taught me the
fundamentals of the Deposit of the Faith. I believe all of this shielded me
against the onslaught of neomodernist religious education āprofessionalsā who
led my catechist formation in the 1970s.
MONDAY last I posted that Pope Francis might not be all that the secular media consider him to be, recommending a First Things piece on the matter. Today we read of Archbishop Chaput's interview with John Allen of the National Catholic (?) Reporter , in Rio for WYD. What caught my attention was the Archbishops's comment that alienated, non-serious Catholics perhaps interpret the Pope's openness as being less concerned than his predecessors with doctrine, and that it is already true that "the right wing of the Church" has not been happy with his election. As I argued in The Smoke of Satan , and as George Weigel has eloquently posited in Evangelical Catholicism , the political terms left and right are woefully inadequate as measurements of one's standing in the Body of Christ. There are only the orthodox, and the heterodox.
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