Contra Mr. Bottum | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: It is no surprise that Bottum would not recognize the teaching gifts of our former Holy Father, since they were a model of economic liberalism and Christological scholarship which focus on love rather than force. I have no quarrel over any criticism of him. However, Benedict certainly set the CDF on fire against dissent over female ordination in a way that was reminiscent of Pius X, I suspect the clergy are now cynical enough to let such nonsense pass, knowing that the future cannot be stopped. I also suspect that they would not disagree with a witch hunt (pardon the term) over female ordination.
The tragedy of Benedict's papacy is that he never realized that the tyranny of relativism applied as much to a Curia where authority won any argument with reason and evidence as anything coming out of the most radical theologian (Gary Wills comes to mind). Indeed, the radicalism of many theologians is the fact that they can marshal evidence that the Pope refused to accept.
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