Jesus once lamented those who would lose their souls to gain the whole world. How much greater is the tragic comedy of those losing their souls—and still forfeiting the world.
By Adam Lucas, Catholic World Report, March 27, 2023
Adam Lucas has a Master’s in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville (Dec ’22). He writes from from Pittsburgh, where he lives with his wife and their newborn baby.
It’s familiar news by now that the German “Synodal Way” has moved forward with the heterodox “reforms” of women’s ordination and gender ideology. Familiar, too, is Cardinal Robert W. McElroy’s plea for a similar “inclusion” in the wider Catholic Church. They both have generated much conversation and criticism, giving the impression that we’re observing something comparatively new in the Church.
But these are just the latest attempts in the now decades-old project to make Catholicism socially acceptable by compromising on hot button issues. …
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