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Article: The old battle-axes of liberal Catholicism want to blow us away.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 28, 2005
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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 ...