Against Catholic Reaction
I. I bear bad news. I speak not with hate but with a heavy heart. The Catholic Church has failed the test of modernity. Arguably, so too has every major church to varying degrees. Others may have failed earlier – but by 1965 with the close of the Second Vatican Council, there wasn’t much question left as to the path the ‘universal church’ was taking. Founding stock folk of Western Europe, including the colonial offspring, have nowhere to look for shelter. One can look perhaps to kooky splinter churches with small congregations, but anything with a national or international presence has at this point a questionable theology and is clearly pandering to globohomo. Frankly the two are intertwined; pandering to globohomo power leads to a compromise of principles and theology . All of these places have been broken by a set of common conditions: demands of power, rapid displacement with technology and urbanization, ideological shifts, and the subtle creep