Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Bedroom and Boardroom
Dale Ahlquist has a great article over at the Distributist Review about the problems many people have with Catholic Social Teaching, specifically, the failure to acknowledge the Church's teachings on sex/family life and economics (many people are inclined to support one while opposing the other). Please, also check out John C. Médaille's comment, it is really spot on, as always.
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The American Church, especially, is riven between "conservatives" who accept the Church's Teaching on bioethical and sexual matters while pretending not to know that the economic and foreign policies that they excoriate are in fact the Church's Teaching on justice and peace, and "liberals" who accept the Church's Teaching on justice and peace while excoriating that on most biothical and most or all sexual matters.
ReplyDeleteNeither is any more orthodox than the other, and both echo the Americanist heresy, itself, since there are new heresies, a manifestation of the same error that, drawing on deep roots in every case, presented itself at Byzantium in the eleventh century, in England in sixteenth and nineteenth, in France and the Nethlerlands in the seventeenth, in German-speaking Europe and the Hapsburg lands in the eighteenth, and among the Croats of Croatia and of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the 1990s onwards.
The influence of each of these can still be felt, while there were and are several further examples. Both sides of neo-Americanism belong in that category.