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Well McBrien is still at it…
"…In a later interview with an Italian journalist in 1989, John Paul II returned to the topic of polarization, insisting that his many trips around the world were designed in part to prevent a “confrontation” between the two wings of the church.
Significantly, the pope identified the right wing with the schismatic (and subsequently excommunicated) Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and those who are “afraid of change as represented by the council.” On the left wing he placed those who “already hoped for a Third Vatican Council or who are guilty of reducing everything to the particular [that is, local] church.”
The pope offered no examples of left-wing Catholics, but if the late Archbishop Lefebvre and his followers constitute the right wing of the Church, would that not mean that Opus Dei, the Legionaries of Christ, Crisis, Communio and First Things magazines, as well as most of the bishops appointed and/or promoted by John Paul II occupy the center?
And if such individuals, groups, and publications are in the center of the Catholic Church, it would also follow that the late Cardinals Joseph Bernardin and John Dearden and such bishops as John Quinn and the late James Malone — all former presidents of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — as well as the Catholic Theological Society of America, the drafters and supporters of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral letters on peace and the economy, and Commonweal and America magazines are left-wing and, therefore, out of the Catholic mainstream.
One of the biggest unreported stories in contemporary Catholicism is the redefinition and displacement of the historic Catholic center by newly-powerful forces on the right…
the-tidings.com/2005/0701/essays.htm
"…In a later interview with an Italian journalist in 1989, John Paul II returned to the topic of polarization, insisting that his many trips around the world were designed in part to prevent a “confrontation” between the two wings of the church.
Significantly, the pope identified the right wing with the schismatic (and subsequently excommunicated) Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and those who are “afraid of change as represented by the council.” On the left wing he placed those who “already hoped for a Third Vatican Council or who are guilty of reducing everything to the particular [that is, local] church.”
The pope offered no examples of left-wing Catholics, but if the late Archbishop Lefebvre and his followers constitute the right wing of the Church, would that not mean that Opus Dei, the Legionaries of Christ, Crisis, Communio and First Things magazines, as well as most of the bishops appointed and/or promoted by John Paul II occupy the center?
And if such individuals, groups, and publications are in the center of the Catholic Church, it would also follow that the late Cardinals Joseph Bernardin and John Dearden and such bishops as John Quinn and the late James Malone — all former presidents of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — as well as the Catholic Theological Society of America, the drafters and supporters of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral letters on peace and the economy, and Commonweal and America magazines are left-wing and, therefore, out of the Catholic mainstream.
One of the biggest unreported stories in contemporary Catholicism is the redefinition and displacement of the historic Catholic center by newly-powerful forces on the right…
the-tidings.com/2005/0701/essays.htm