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spiritually that is especially true for priests he said in the study priests tested slightly higher on standard psychological evaluations than the average person and reported one of the highest rates of satisfaction with their work of people in any profession posted by david h lukenbill at 10 49 am wednesday november 2 2011 progressive catholics it took several years after our conversion and baptism to recognize and fully appreciate how much they differed from conservative catholics within whose camp we ve found our home and while it really isn t a matter of progressive vs conservative but being congruent with traditional church teaching rather than not and conservatives tend to be the former progressives the latter once realizing the difference and understanding their perspective the attempt to ally peter with occupy wall street isn t a surprise george weigel one of the church s most important theologians his books are at amazon s author page writes about them on the ethics public policy center an excerpt it s been a bad three and a half decades for self styled progressive catholics first there was john paul ii whom many in that camp habitually labeled a charismatic reactionary yet the polish pope was a hero all over the world during an epic pontificate that bent history s arc in a more humane direction and did so without the aid of liberation theology john paul s funeral mass on april 8 2005 became in the apt phrase of nbc anchor brian williams the human event of a generation a moniker unlikely to be attached to the obsequies of say hans küng john paul s most embittered progressive critic then came the election of the progressives bête noire joseph ratzinger as pope benedict xvi a horror that a prominent progressive notre dame s fr richard mcbrien declared electorally impossible a mere 24 hours before it happened catholic progressives hunkered down for what they hoped would be a brief ratzingerian interregnum but benedict xvi has proven an energetic pope whose pontificate has been in dynamic continuity with that of his predecessor an astute analyst of the cultural crisis of the west and a man determined to strengthen catholic identity as the sine qua non of catholic reform thus the wojtyla ratzinger years have put paid to the notion beloved of catholic progressives that catholicism began anew ex nihilo as it were at the second vatican council committed to the hoary liberal conservative hermeneutic of the council s history catholic progressives hold that vatican ii represented a dramatic rupture with the past the great teaching pontificates of john paul ii and benedict xvi however have proposed a far more plausible interpretation of the council as one in dynamic continuity with the great tradition of christian orthodoxy that interpretation in turn is shaping an entire new generation of catholic intellectuals who are far more interested in exploring the complex riches of that tradition than in deconstructing it unlike the aging progressives who have shown themselves rather infertile intellectually and who survive in large part because of that most conservative of institutions the tenure system many younger catholic scholars are fully committed to putting theology at the service of the new evangelization for which john paul ii and benedict xvi have insistently called in the united states the progressives have also been steadily losing their grip at the national diocesan and local parish levels various lay renewal movements have become vital and self consciously orthodox factors in catholic life and a new generation of priests and bishops many of whom look explicitly to john paul ii as their model of ecclesiastical leadership have come to the fore for the past half decade or more the catholic bishops of the united states following the pope s lead have increasingly stressed the importance of catholic identity by which they understand fidelity to catholic teaching in confronting an increasingly hostile cultural and legal political environment that problem has been considerably exacerbated by the obama administration which many catholic progressives welcomed with loud hosannas and for whose regulatory assault on catholic health care and social service agencies progressives have provided cover often by implausible appeals to catholic social doctrine throughout this fairly rapid decline progressive catholicism s distinctive cultural marker has been its skepticism about the teaching authority of the church whether that teaching authority was formally and authoritatively addressing the ethics of human love the suitability of women for holy orders the uniqueness of christ as universal savior or the intrinsic evils of abortion and euthanasia thus it was another sign of the increasing incoherence of progressive catholicism when several of its american paladins mounted a raucous defense of a note a kind of vatican white paper on international financial reform issued by the pontifical council for justice and peace pcjp on october 24 it was an extraordinary exercise the progressives depicted benedict xvi as a senior chaplain to occupy wall street described the note in such overwrought terms that the gullible might have thought this white paper shared in the charism of papal infallibility and darkly suggested that those who disagreed with the note s prescriptions were cafeteria catholics picking and choosing their doctrines to fit preexisting political tastes the irony of men such as the former editor of america fr thomas reese s j washington post columnist e j dionne jr and national catholic reporter blogger michael sean winters promoting a notion of papal teaching authority more expansive than any imagined by the most wild eyed traditionalist will not be lost on cognoscenti of ecclesiastical intrigue this new notion of pcjp infallibility does however raise interesting questions about the nature and modalities of catholic teaching authority about the organization of the holy see and about the state of catholic progressivism in america given the continuing confusion caused by father reese s assertion that the note positioned benedict xvi to the left of nancy pelosi which reverberated throughout the media echo chamber it s important to pin down just what the pontifical council for justice and peace is and what authority its statements bear the pontifical council with whose president cardinal peter turkson i had an entirely cordial 90 minute conversation last year was established after vatican ii as part of the new curia a set of agencies intended to give organizational expression to some of vatican ii s pastoral concerns the promotion of social doctrine the family the lay mission in the world and so forth unlike the older congregations of the roman curia which exercise an authority of jurisdiction over bishops clergy religious life catholic worship etc and unlike the tribunals of the curia which make binding legal decisions the pontifical councils of the new curia were intended to be in house think tanks bureaucracy being what it is however they quickly morphed into something else paper factories issuing all sorts of statements on all sorts of issues as i wrote in god s choice pope benedict xvi and the future of the catholic church there was concern during the 2005 conclave over the large amount of paper being generated by the new curia paper that was inevitably if inaccurately interpreted publicly as being the settled understanding of the catholic church and its highest teaching authority on x y and z posted by david h lukenbill at 7 28 am labels catholic church catholic politics history social teaching tuesday november 1 2011 u s sexual abuse trial the trial concerning the scandal in philadelphia involving an archbishop is moving along as reported by the washington post an excerpt philadelphia prosecutors seeking to convict four roman catholic priests and a teacher in a pedophilia case want to use evidence of other sexual assault complaints and priest transfers in the philadelphia archdiocese they filed a motion friday to include relevant conduct at the high profile trial which is scheduled for march monsignor william lynn 60 is the first u s church official charged with child endangerment and accused of transferring predator priests who then abused more victims two priests an ex priest and a teacher are charged in the same case with raping two boys prosecutors hope to show that lynn had a pattern of transferring known predators and that priests had the opportunity and cover to abuse minors they also want to show the jury broad evidence of the archdiocese s handling of sex abuse complaints to try to prove the complaints were ignored enabling predators and exposing them to new victims the commonwealth needs the other acts evidence to make out core elements of the crimes charged lynn s knowledge and the intent he shared with his supervisors and with accused priests are established by the patterns evident in his extensive history of handling priests who sexually assaulted children city prosecutors wrote in a pretrial motion filed friday defense lawyers have a month to file their response and cannot comment on the filing because of a gag order they have sought unsuccessfully to separate the rape charges from the case against lynn who is charged solely for his administrative actions as secretary for clergy lynn s lawyers say their client was acting on orders from cardinal anthony bevilacqua whom he served from 1992 to 2004 in another key pretrial issue prosecutors are seeking to preserve bevilacqua s testimony before trial however the archdiocese argues that the retired cardinal at 92 suffers from cancer and dementia and should not be dragged into court lynn s lawyers will clearly try to limit the scope of the trial testimony to job transfers involving the three priests on trial with him they are the rev charles engelhardt 64 the rev james brennan 48 and former priest edward avery 69 along with former teacher bernard shero 48 all of them have denied the charges posted by david h lukenbill at 8 54 am labels catholic church crime sexual abuse monday october 31 2011 catholic church occupy vancouver a local church almost got taken over by the group as reported by all headline news an excerpt organizers of the occupy vancouver movement almost took over the holy rosary cathedral in downtown vancouver on sunday morning vancouver police stopped the protesters from disrupting mass at the catholic church a spokesman for the group which renamed itself occupy vatican said the purpose of the aborted church takeover was to bring to the catholic church s attention the thousands of residential school survivors who suffered under the clergy however some members of the occupy vancouver movement said that the occupy vatican movement did not secure consensus at their saturday night general assembly and was not supported by the majority of protestors vancouver archbishop michael miler anticipated the march of protesters and requested extra police protection outside the cathedral to prevent the disruption of the mass in the u s protesters from nashville and san diego were arrested over the weekend after police moved into their camps at night nashville police used a new law that banned overnight camping near the tennessee state capital san diego police arrest 51 protesters removed tents canopies tables and other furniture making the wall street movements more challenging is an early cold storm that hit parts of the u s over the weekend which also disrupted halloween celebrations posted by david h lukenbill at 8 44 am labels catholic church catholic politics sexual abuse friday october 28 2011 economic justice the reaction to a recent vatican document entitled towards reforming the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority that came from the pontifical council of justice peace has raised a lot of comment and after reading it i can see why the fuss but it is a good document thoughtful and well worth a read an excerpt preface the world situation requires the concerted effort of everyone a thorough examination of every facet of the problem social economic cultural and spiritual the church which has long experience in human affairs and has no desire to be involved in the political activities of any nation seeks but one goal to carry forward the work of christ under the lead of the befriending spirit and christ entered this world to give witness to the truth to save not to judge to serve not to be served with these words in the prophetic and always relevant encyclical populorum progressio of 1967 paul vi outlined in a clear way the trajectories of the church s close relation with the world these trajectories intersect in the profound value of human dignity and the quest for the common good which make people responsible and free to act according to their highest aspirations the economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone individuals and peoples to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence what is more the crisis engages private actors and competent public authorities on the national regional and international level in serious reflection on both causes and solutions of a political economic and technical nature in this perspective as benedict xvi teaches the crisis obliges us to re plan our journey to set ourselves new rules and to discover new forms of commitment to build on positive experiences and to reject negative ones the crisis thus becomes an opportunity for discernment in which to shape a new vision for the future in this spirit with confidence rather than resignation it is appropriate to address the difficulties of the present time the g20 leaders themselves said in the statement they adopted in pittsburgh in 2009 the economic crisis demonstrates the importance of ushering in a new era of sustainable global economic activity grounded in responsibility the pontifical council for justice and peace now responds to the holy father s appeal while making the concerns of everyone our own especially the concerns of those who pay most dearly for the current situation with due respect for the competent civil and political authorities the council hereby offers and shares its reflection towards reforming the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority this reflection hopes to benefit world leaders and all people of good will it is an exercise of responsibility not only towards the current but above all towards future generations so that hope for a better future and confidence in human dignity and capacity for good may never be extinguished cardinal peter k a turkson mario toso president secretary posted by david h lukenbill at 10 22 am labels catholic church catholic economics older posts home subscribe to posts atom lampstand foundation website http www 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