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For liberal Catholics, even slightest praise for a critic of Pope Francis is ‘schism’ — but they have no problem promoting scandalous, heterodox figures.
By Raymond Wolfe, LifeSiteNews, Aug 30, 2023
(LifeSiteNews) — Left-wing Catholics have sparked outrage and mockery for accusing renowned Catholic author and evangelist Scott Hahn of “schism” because he expressed gratitude for a new pastoral letter from Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas.
Hahn’s detractors include prominent liberal Catholic writers and academics, such as papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, who have themselves defended or praised heterodox figures.
Ivereigh, who has a scandalous past but was appointed by Pope Francis as an “expert” for the Synod on Synodality, went so far as to claim that Hahn has joined “the US rad trad schism.” But Ivereigh and other liberals attacking Hahn have endorsed Fr. James Martin and Cardinal Robert McElroy, who have publicly criticized Catholic teaching on sexuality. …
