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Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church? – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church?

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Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Reaction to Jesus’ Words

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The counterfactual optimism of heretics keeps them in the Church while working to destroy it.

By Jennifer Bryson, Crisis Magazine, March 24, 2023

Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC and a Visiting Researcher at Hochschule Heiligenkreuz. She lives in Austria.

Fifty years ago, then-Fr. Joseph Ratzinger and Ida Friederike Görres were watching their era’s equivalent of a livestream of the implosion of the Church in Europe. And they were asking the same questions about the “reformers” in the Church that many of us are asking today:

Why are they so optimistic about their efforts that are patently leading to a decline in the Church? And why do these people remain in a Church they so clearly despise? And, daring to utter the s-word, when will the powers that be finally pull out a red card and declare, “schism”? …

Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church?

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Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Reaction to Jesus’ Words

The counterfactual optimism of heretics keeps them in the Church while working to destroy it.

By Jennifer Bryson, Crisis Magazine, March 24, 2023

Fifty years ago, then-Fr. Joseph Ratzinger and Ida Friederike Görres were watching their era’s equivalent of a livestream of the implosion of the Church in Europe. And they were asking the same questions about the “reformers” in the Church that many of us are asking today:

Why are they so optimistic about their efforts that are patently leading to a decline in the Church? And why do these people remain in a Church they so clearly despise? And, daring to utter the s-word, when will the powers that be finally pull out a red card and declare, “schism”? …

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