The Problem(s) with “LGBTQ Catholic”

The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus had a love-hate relationship with the New York Times.

Richard was a passionate partisan of New York City, which he sometimes described as a preview of the New Jerusalem, but the Gray Lady’s parochialism nonetheless led him to occasionally dismiss New York’s most prestigious daily as a “parish newsletter.” He regularly castigated the Times’s editorials for their air of smug infallibility. And then there was RJN’s annoyance (and more) with the Times’s knee-jerk liberalism, which, by its embrace of every imaginable left-of-center cause, accelerated the decay of liberal politics into the promotion of lifestyle libertinism. Richard was thus years ahead of Joseph Ratzinger in issuing warnings about a dictatorship of relativism, the unavoidable political outcome of the Times’s cultural lurch leftward.