By F. Andrew Wolf, Jr., Crisis Magazine, Oct. 16, 2024
F. Andrew Wolf, Jr. is the Director of The Fulcrum Institute, a new organization of current and former scholars in the Humanities, Foreign Affairs and Philosophy dedicated to the classical liberal tradition in America. Fulcrum focuses on the foreign policy of the BRICS+ and relationships between China, Russia and India in their engagement with US economic and foreign policy initiatives.
Much of that to which Bishop Schneider feels compelled to respond (and that to which the Church ought to) is a “dis-ease” dividing the world in its struggle with itself and with God.
Born in Kyrgyzstan under Soviet repression, to intensely devout Catholic parents, the future Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider was essentially raised in the Catholic underground. His parents, who had been prisoners in the gulag, would often travel dozens of kilometers under the cover of darkness to attend Mass. Had they been captured, the consequences would have been severe: gulag, loss of job status, or worse.
Upon moving to West Germany in the 1970s, he and his family were amazed to see the radical changes of Vatican II, especially those made to the Catholic Mass, influenced by the ’60s cultural revolution with its diminished sense of the Sacred. …