Yes, you read aright. A favourable quotation from
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Having a Catholic ethos precludes giving either
Ann Coulter or Peter Singer a platform.
The American Church, especially, is riven between
"conservatives" who accept the Church's Teaching on bioethical and
sexual matters while pretending not to know that the economic and foreign
policies that they excoriate are in fact the Church's Teaching on justice and
peace, and "liberals" who accept the Church's Teaching on justice and
peace while excoriating that on most bioethical and most or all sexual matters.
Neither is any more orthodox than the other, and
both echo the Americanist heresy. Since there are no new heresies, that was a
manifestation of the same error that has presented itself at Byzantium in the
eleventh century, in England in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, in
France and the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, in German-speaking
Europe and the Hapsburg lands in the eighteenth century, and among the Croats
of Croatia and of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the 1990s onwards.
The influence of each of these can still be felt,
while there were and are several further examples. Both sides of
neo-Americanism belong in that category.
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