By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Nov 17, 2021
Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.
Do you wish some brilliant critic would let loose on the subversive pro-homosexual views of Father James Martin? It’s been done. A blistering review entitled “Pontifex Minimus” appeared in the August-September 2017 issue of First Things.
Have you often wondered why so many American bishops—including some whose personal orthodoxy seems unassailable—regularly surrender ground to dissidents? The best available explanation, a witty and perceptive essay, “’Tames’ in Clerical Life,” was published in Latin Mass magazine in Summer 1996. …