The Americanist Heresy

[arisbe]

"Conservatives of almost all stripes had cause to rejoice in Ratzinger’s election, as even non-Catholics among them saw in him a man who would uphold the values dear to them. An ephemeral but telling sign of his support was the presence on the Internet of sites announcing themselves as the 'Ratzinger Fanclub' and 'Protestants for Ratzinger.' The new pope would be a sure ally for the Right in the Culture War. But where hot wars are concerned, many of Ratzinger’s most ardent admirers—Catholic neoconservatives especially—find themselves diametrically at odds with the pope." -- Daniel McCarthy in TAC

Comments

[holyoffice.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting, especially when you consider that the Catholic intellectuals mentioned in the article are the ones who loudly lament their fellow Catholics who practice artificial contraception, etc. It seems there are more than just "liberals" involved in "Cafeteria Catholicism."

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

When I was but a wee lad Bill Buckley scrawled "Mater si, magistra no" over the cover of National Review, in imitation of Fidel's "Cuba si, Yanqui, no.