It’s remarkable that, despite every cultural advantage—and even a sympathetic pope—liberal Catholics still have a sense that they are losing, or at least failing to persuade.https://twitter.com/BrianPFlanagan/status/1029000778114129920 …
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Faggioli raised similar concerns here:https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wake-call-liberal-theologians …
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I think there are at least three reasons for the anxiety among liberal Catholics. First, there is a frustration that Pope Francis isn’t moving quickly enough and not doing enough to creat “irreversible” innovations.
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Second, despite wide support for heterodoxy/innovations among Catholics writ large, liberal Catholics have no doubt had personal encounters with younger Catholics for whom orthodoxy or Tradition is at least respected, if not prized. This is very unsettling to Boomers/68-ers.
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Finally, liberal Catholics are discovering that secular society no longer finds them interesting. Innovation and evolution is expected. There’s nothing subversive or radical about it anymore. Thus, more traditional commentators are given a bigger stage, at least as a curiosity.
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It’s also worth noting that the insecurity over the future of liberal Catholicism is being voiced by the younger generation of liberal Catholics (like Flanagan and Faggioli). The Boomers/68-ers still seem oblivious.
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I think it has to do with the left shedding all religious/spiritual aspects of itself ex: liberal Christians and the new age was all the rage among 80s leftists, from the 90s-now the left is full on atheist and materialist, left-caths are deluding themselves to not realize this.
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