New Oxford Notes: December 2015
Welcome to the Battlefield
Liberal Catholic theologians cannot brook dissent from their own way of thinking. They won't debate subjects they consider long settled, and will resort to censorship to silence dissent.
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Is Benedict to Blame?
Vatican II's vaunted reforms couldn't keep Catholics from being swept away from the Church. There wasn't much Pope Benedict XVI could do to stop this, and surely he can't be blamed for it.
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The First Amendment speaks of not impeding "free exercise of religion." It does not say public life must officially pretend that religion and religious citizens do not exist.
We need a word from outside, a revelation, a voice that tells us all the things we would never see on our own. In other words, we need settled dogma.