The old battle-axes of liberal Catholicism want to blow us away

For years, traditional Catholicism has been ascendant, and now it's the dynamic force in the U.S. Catholic Church. Not surprisingly, greying liberal Catholics have been getting uptight and ticked off, and they've been lashing out.

For example, Commonweal, that elderly organ of liberal Catholicism with an aging readership, devoted its entire back cover to an attempt to ridicule us. We are the NEW OXFORD REVIEW, a Catholic magazine of a newer generation. The gist of their attack was that we're out of touch with "liberal post-Enlightenment culture" and are read by "ostriches." Earlier, Commonweal printed a letter from a homo-sexual claiming that we "reek of fascism." Ah, that good ol' "F" word, so serviceable in the salad days of the 60s!

The National Catholic Reporter, always on the cutting edge of 60s nostalgia, has nonjudgmentally accused us of taking "cheap shots" at feminism and being a "poisoned dart," while letter writers have sensitively demonized us as "triumphalistic," "abusive," and "vicious."

We placed a satirical ad in America, the liberal Jesuit weekly, headlined "Does St. Bozo's Parish No Longer Amuse You?" Three weeks later, America printed a letter accusing us of being "very callous" and favoring "thought-control." In reply, America offered its "sincerest apologies" to its humor-impaired reader for running our ad, and solemnly affirmed that our ad was "offensive," the Great Sacrilege of the Politically Correct. And, striking a mighty blow against "thought-control," America banned all our "offensive" ads. Ah, you didn't know that the liberal Jesuits maintain an Index of Forbidden Ads, did you?

Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who paid out $450,000 in Archdiocesan funds to cover up a homosexual affair, has called us "extremely offensive." Well, we hope so, especially to the likes of him.

And the liberals at the Catholic Library Association have recently banned us from their Catholic Periodical and Literature Index--without explanation.

Of course, all of this is so typical of liberal Catholics. They're all for inclusiveness, but love to exclude the non-inclusive; they're all for diversity, but not intellectual diversity. And oh, how they love to censor speech that "offends" them.

Actually, we're delighted to be attacked and banned by the wheezing warriors of liberal Catholicism. "Banned in Boston"--notoriety is great box office.

Why are we so detested? Because we energetically support traditional Catholicism and a strong papacy. According to the Los Angeles Times, we're "influential." Obviously, we're too influential to ignore--or to tolerate.

Among those who've written for us are Walker Percy, James Hitchcock, Alice von Hildebrand, Michael S. Rose, Fr. Peter Stravinskas, and Tom Bethell.

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