[hinckley buzzard]

Why is it that Catholics have a Pope and a Magisterium -- a clear teaching authority -- as well as a complex, coherent and profoundly intellectual moral theology ... and yet these things, which ought to give it a tremendous advantage in maintaining the obedience of its flock, avail the Catholic Church little?

For one thing you have had a whole cadre of "Vatican II" priests from seminaries in the seventies and eighties who mocked the Pope and Magisterium; who didn't even think Jesus was real; who scorned the Law, and who preached "social justice" instead of the Gospel.

You have one in charge of Notre Dame right now--see how well he respects the pope and magisterium. Somebody called it "AmChurch," reflecting secular American values of individualism and rejection of authority.

I suspect that this actually will have begun to heal now that you have had two Catholic popes in a row.

[MarkBsnr]

***I suspect that this actually will have begun to heal now that you have had two Catholic popes in a row.***

Very perceptive, indeed. We pray to God that it is so.