Even though there are new elements in the neo-progressivism of today, that it is a recurrence of the older narrative but now decked-out in the verbiage of “discernment”, “accompaniment”, “inclusion”, “listening” and “sensitivity to complex situations”.
By Larry Chapp, Catholic World Report, July 20, 2023
Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. He now owns and manages, with his wife, the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. …
In my youth I attended a very conservative seminary for my undergraduate formation. I was fine with that since I was a very conservative young man theologically, filled with the usual zeal that comes with youthful idealism. It was the season of the post-conciliar, antinomian insanity, and it seemed as if the Church had become the preferred refuge for clerical miscreants of every dissenting theological persuasion. But Pope John Paul II had just been elected, so there also seemed to be hope that a young. conservative Catholic such as myself could actually find a home and a safe haven in the Church.
But I was wrong. …