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Article: The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism.(Brief Article)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- November 19, 1999
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COMMONWEAL FORUM
Introduction
*As part of our anniversary celebration, Commonweal has been reexamining some of the magazine's founding ideas, liberal Catholicism being a central one. We were prodded along in our resolve by a sermon that soon-to-be Cardinal Francis George gave on January 17, 1998 at Chicago's Old Saint Patrick's Church. As it happened I was at the liturgy. What's more, I was actually listening to his sermon. There came that now semi-famous moment when he said, "liberal Catholicism is an exhausted project."
There was a little buzz among the congregation, and then a little hum. It was like being back in second grade: ...