Last week I drew attention to the way in which Robert Orsi, the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, slammed the Catholic Church in an online tirade.
I’m someone who respects (and respectfully disagrees) with a great deal of loyal Catholic dissent.
Yes, I worry that too much of liberal Catholicism has become academic rather than real, in control of academic departments and authoritarian in temperament. Yes, I wrote a quite negative review of Fr. James Keenan’s book, A History of Twentieth Century Moral Theology. And, yes, I’ve said some harsh things about mushy-headed Jesuits.
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