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Here @massimofaggioli makes the silly claim that at Vatican II (which bore some positive fruits) the Church rediscovered itself as a community. In fact the churches emptied, for many reasons – including the empowerment of bossy lay ideologues.
An alliance formed between progressive priests and laity. A Jesuit curate told me that “in my parish the justice and peace group can do anything they like, but the Legion of Mary are treated like lepers”.
The anthropologist Mary Douglas, hardly a reactionary, wrote about the devastating effect of Catholicism’s loss of cultural identity. Now it’s being recovered by orthodox Catholics who find themselves caricatured by panicking progressives as bitter 1970s Lefebvrists.
Meanwhile @massimofaggioli, @austeni, @ctrlamb still refuse to examine the evidence that the Great Reformer is personally tainted – to a shocking degree –by his protection of sex abusers.
