In Chapter Six of my soon-to-be published The Smoke of Satan in the Temple of God., I recount how bishops were given the message from Rome not to admonish Catholics who chose to contracept after neomodernist theologians hoodwinked them into believing that it was morally permissible, this so as not to create division in the Church. This of course resulted in division in the Church. It is heart warming on this the feast of the Assumption to see Catholic bishops fulfilling their role as set down in thje teaching of Vatican II!
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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