{"id":18061,"date":"2013-03-05T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=18061"},"modified":"2013-05-31T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:28:05","slug":"catholic-church-and-todays-world-two-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/05\/catholic-church-and-todays-world-two-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Church and Today’s World: Two Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are two contrasting views of the Catholic Church\u2019s relationship to the contemporary world.<\/p>\n

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First, eminent historian from Oxford University, Diarmaid MacCulloch, manages to pack in nearly every slogan of liberal reformers in this brief interview with The Guardian<\/em><\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

I do think there\u2019s a real big<\/em> crisis in the Church, and it actually feels a bit like 1989, when you turned on the news and there was another government fallen. \u2026You can keep your head inside a paper bag for so long, but in the end you have to take the paper bag off. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Then, Swiss Cardinal Georges Cottier, 93, Dominican and former theologian of the papal household, rejects an opening up of the Church that leads to adaptation to the modern world.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday he warned of a \u201cmore open\u201d church<\/a>, to that extent that this would mean that the Church bends to the \u201cwill of the world.\u201d Then the Church would be left with a decision between \u201ccompromise\u201d and \u201cmediocrity.\u201d An \u201copening\u201d could consist of many wishes and ideas that are not all compatible.<\/p>\n

Viewed theologically, the church is already \u201copen,\u201d the cardinal said, on the basis of her vocation, which is the proclamation of Jesus. The Church is \u201ccatholic\u201d in that she is open and accessible to the entire world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I do think there\u2019s a real big<\/i> crisis in the Church, and it actually feels a bit like 1989…” – Diarmaid MacCulloch
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