Time for Some Good News: The Catholic Academy

Time for Some Good News: The Catholic Academy by MSW. My response:

The Catholic Church is still in an intellectual ghetto on all things biological, asking a cardiologist to write Evangelicum Vitae, when an embryologist might be more appropriate to the task (of course, it would be impossible to find a credible embryologist who would uphold the view John Paul wanted to maintain). Their ignorance of human anthropology in maintaining a first parents golden age myth, simply to uphold Augustine's constructs on original sin, is also troublingly anti-intellectual. The entire unwillingness to reconsider the bioligical basis of homosexuality and how that relates to whether it can be considered at all sinful in a monogamous setting is also a sign of continued ghettoization.


Sadly for the hierarchy, a much more well educated faithful is on the verge of outgrowing it or simply ignoring much of what it says. Serious mental gymnastics are required if the intellectual relevance of much of Catholic dogma is to be maintained. Of late, many priests in their forties and fifties are being recruited, with fewer young people coming to the priesthood - especially younger who are not victims of overly orthodox parenting and education. There is hope, however, that a corps of Spriti of Vatican II clergy will assume leadership in short order and set things right.