Surprise! There are Catholics to the right of JPII

Finally, a mainstream commentator—Hugh Hewitt writing in the Weekly Standard—has acknowledged that there are some people who regard the already almost sainted John Paul II not as a great Catholic traditionalist and foe of secular modernity, but as, in key respects, a man of the left, as expressed in the secularizing spirit of Vatican II of which John Paul II was a champion. Unfortunately, beyond mentioning the existence of these traditionalist Catholic groups, Hewitt has nothing to say about them, except that they want the Old Mass back.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 06, 2005 08:35 PM | Send