An Apologia-(but not a retraction)

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" For instance, every other day the National Catholic Reporter publishes an article calling for women’s ordination. What do we do? We roll our eyes. Yet Crisis publishes one article calling for women’s disenfranchisement, and we’re shocked and outraged!"

 
That’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. I saved it.

I myself am increasingly skeptical toward democracy.
 
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As the writer himself points out he does not consider this ‘the truth’ in the sense that it is Catholic teaching. He says it is opinion, and therefore the truth. I don’t recall either a scriptural or a Church injunction to proclaim one’s own opinion.
 
Admitting error has no rights, that the Church does not order democracy for the entire world, and that what counts most in life is not political success but Heaven is Catholic teaching.
 
I have always tried (though I have almost always failed) to help my reader see the world, not as a member of some faction or sect, but as a Catholic.
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Mr Davis, your comments are the epitome of chauvinism not Catholic teaching.
I take the Gospel as my manifesto and refuse to submit myself to any censor but the Holy Catholic Church.
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Mr Davis that Church is your Mother, your teacher and you can’t diminish that important truth and claim to be speaking for the Church.

CCC169 Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: “We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth, and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation.” Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith.
 
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Admitting error has no rights, that the Church does not order democracy for the entire world, and that what counts most in life is not political success but Heaven is Catholic teaching.
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Mr Davis’ whole argument is an exercise in self contradictory ironies. The Church teaches that people are free to support any form of government that their conscience directs. Why is he on the one hand insinuating that democracy isn’t Catholic and on the other saying it isn’t politics that matters but heaven?

Pope Leo XIII Immortale Dei (1885) “48. But in matters merely political, as, for instance, the best form of government, and this or that system of administration, a difference of opinion is lawful. Those, therefore, whose piety is in other respects known, and whose minds are ready to accept in all obedience the decrees of the apostolic see, cannot in justice be accounted as bad men because they disagree as to subjects We have mentioned; and still graver wrong will be done them, if - as We have more than once perceived with regret - they are accused of violating, or of wavering in, the Catholic faith.”
 
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The article is… bizarre, to say the least.
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I’d describe it as “boneheaded”.

Hope I never meet any of the women who gave him “overwhelmingly positive feedback” on that.

Edited to add, worst of all he is the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, not just some contributor. I’ve never had a high opinion of Crisis, given that it seems to see its job as manufacturing crises in order to lend credibility to its name, but I think now I’ll be binning it right alongside Voris’ outlets.
 
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I never linked the original article for which he penned the “Apologia.” But for anyone interested, the link is HERE.
 
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