1. So, on the Podesta and Co. emails mocking conservative Catholic converts and envisioning/backing a liberalizing "Catholic Spring" ...— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
2. I'm not sure it's that helpful for critics to call this stuff "anti-Catholic." Yes, it does, in a sense, partake of certain old slurs.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
3. But the echoes of old Protestant lines about Catholicism's awful medievalness mostly reflect the fact that the Protestant critique ...— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
4. ... has been semi-absorbed by modern liberal Catholicism, and now supplies part of the narrative for one side of the Catholic civil war.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
5. That's what there is to see here: Not anti-Catholic "bigotry" (an overused word), but a window into how the Catholic civil war is fought.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
6. In this case: Through alliances between liberal institutions writ large and the more progressive wing within the church.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
7. Those alliances, as @PhilLawler notes, are hardly new: https://t.co/ZnOSLe0VEU And they have often involved $.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
8. Pro-choice Catholic groups were reliably funded by liberal foundations:https://t.co/hc3N3Ghbza— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
9. We already knew the left-wing Catholic groups Podesta mentions were funded by George Soros.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
10. Only news here is the way Podesta makes the implicit explicit: Liberals regard conservative RCs as prisoners of authoritarianism ...— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
11. ... in need of liberation by enlightened forces, secular + religious. And the reality is that his vision is shared *within* Catholicism.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
12. Including, up to a point, at high levels within the church. So calling it "anti-Catholic" just doesn't seem to fit.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
13. Any more than it would necessarily make sense to describing an alliance of Western $ and liberal Muslims as "anti-Islam."— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
14. What's being contested isn't whether Catholicism is good or bad; what's being contested is what Catholicism *is*, and can become.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
15. Podesta et. al. think they're *helping* Catholicism; that like Mormonism sans polygamy a more sexually progressive church will flourish.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
16. And while conservative Catholics can point out links between this progressive vision and the Protestant anti-Catholicism of yore ...— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
17. ... they should recognize that in confronting Podesta-ish ideas, they aren't defending a united church against political hostility.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
18. They're dealing with assistance being directed to their co-religionists, to help win contested territory within the Catholic sphere.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
19. My only point, I guess, is that performative outrage is an inadequate response if it fails to acknowledge the extent to which ...— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
20. ... Catholic identity and (increasingly) teaching are contested in ways that encourage this kind of "friendly" intervention ...— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
21. ...and will continue to encourage it as long as the internal contest continues unresolved. (Which is to say, as far ahead as I can see.)— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) October 13, 2016
2 comments:
he's a boob. Catholicism has a definition. Read the Gospels, Read the CCC.
performative outrage? Yikes...
Doubthat. (Get it?)
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