I clicked on a Crisis link today, when I saw Mark Shea describe it as an "epic piece of false prophecy from the worst and dumbest journal of false prophecy in the Catholicosphere." I mean, how could you resist a description like that? I suppose I should not be surprised that the folks who were arguing against women's suffrage in August (for real, I am not making it up; you know you want to be Catholic so you too can go to church with folks like this) have lost the plot and jumped the shark.
One thing that jumped out at me today was the article's vilification of The Left, as if The Left were a homogenous entity in uniform opposition to Catholics. As if faithful Catholic leftists could not exist. (Dorothy Day, Secret Enemy of the Faithful.) As if nobody ever leaned left on economic issues while also embracing Church teaching on sexual morality. (My dudes, Acts 3-6 is not what you'd call a compelling argument for capitalism.)
I have a blog post in my drafts folder about moving forward after this interminable election day/week/fever dream, and at the heart of it is the idea that GOP economic policies have been accepted by many faithful Catholics as The One Right Way To Do Economic Policy. This is bunk, not to put too fine a point on it, and unusually corrosive bunk at that. I'm curious about the timeline here. I know that in the early 90s it was taken for granted in evangelical circles that Left-Leaning = Anti-Christian. For those of you who've been around for a while, was that true in the Catholic milieu as well?
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