Portraying liberals as defenders of tradition

A reader writes:

I believe your comments concerning JP II were necessary and timely.

I recall when Cardinal O’Connor died. You would have thought he was the greatest Christian since Paul. Papers (secular and Catholic) constantly told us what a great champion of Catholicism he was. Yet there was no mention of a single modernist who lost his job because of O’Connor or a single thing he did to make the Catholic church more conservative. So far as I can tell, there were none.

The same will no doubt happen with JP II, although on a bigger scale. Of course, he did have some achievements, but results that make a difference in the life of average Catholics are hard to come by. If Vatican II had never happened and Cardinal Wojtyla tried to implement in his diocese what he foisted or permitted on the Church (altar girls, ecumenical confabs that welcome Voodoo priests, endless praise of Islam, failure to discipline liberals, etc.) he would not have been considered much of a conservative. In fact, he would have been seen as a liberal.

The parallels here with the neoconservatives don’t need to be spelled out.

I say to the writer: Thank you for this.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 03, 2005 09:11 AM | Send