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By Casey Chalk, Catholic Education Resource Center - Bronwen McShea’s otherwise excellent brief history Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know, flirts with this feminist tendency, practically right out of the gate. “This book is also for anyone interested in the history of Catholicism—to demonstrate that the history of the Church’s women is the Church’s history, just as much as the history of her men is.” Fair enough, though who, exactly, has said otherwise? And is this a competition?

By Dominic V. Cassella, The Catholic Thing - (Progressive Catholicism) of course, lies at the opposite extreme. It adopts an excessive focus on “opening out to the world” and accommodating modern secular culture. Progressives give an uncritical embrace to modernity and secularization, and their openness makes it easy to be converted to the world, instead of being a force for converting the world... Indeed, the reason for Progressivism’s susceptibility to trends is the conviction that it has nothing to teach the world, and so must listen to it.