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Here<\/a>, the good Father expounds on some of the main problems in Catholicism facing our Faith today.\u00a0 He hits it on the head regarding a serious issue.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not so much been shocked, as I\u2019ve been saddened by much of what I\u2019ve seen in the Catholic Church.\u00a0 In many Protestant, particularly Conservative Evangelical, denominations, the basic view is that Catholicism has become a watered down, semi-European secular, post-modern faith in the best traditions\u00a0of most mainline Protestant denominations.\u00a0 Oh, the Church stands against abortion.\u00a0 But that\u2019s about it.\u00a0 Many apologists for the traditional Faith bemoan the fact that many Catholics think abortion is the only thing worth caring about.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it, there\u2019s little reason to think otherwise. When it comes to abortion, the Church is as organized, diligent, and swift to act as you can imagine.\u00a0 When it comes to almost anything else, not so much.\u00a0 Anything else, and it\u2019s more or less up to the diocese, or the parish, to hash out whatever it wants to do, think, believe, or whatever.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So at least this is a start.\u00a0 The Church seems to have an almost hands-off approach to its own fold nowadays, focusing its attention on abortion and birth control, and telling countries in the West pretty much how badly they are screwing things up.\u00a0 But when it comes to other things, such as science and scientific theories, academic theories, the latest scholarly trends, it appears to just have an \u2018as long as it doesn\u2019t contradict God, it\u2019s good enough for us\u2019 mentality.<\/p>\n

Thus I\u2019ve read biblical commentaries in many a Catholic bookstore that would out liberal the most liberal Protestant biblical commentaries.\u00a0 The Bible is fairy tales and myth, made up by people centuries later to explain the faith of the postexilic Israeli community. Or it\u2019s folks writing a hundred years or more after the time of Jesus, in the name of this or that apostle, to speak to the contemporary political an social milieu in which they lived.\u00a0 Of course the Resurrection is always real.\u00a0 And to varying degrees, so is the Incarnation.\u00a0 But those real events are surrounded by more fables than Aesop\u00a0could muster. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say there is no place for biblical scholarship.\u00a0 And it isn\u2019t to say we shouldn\u2019t open ourselves up to new discoveries of the Sacred Texts.\u00a0 But it is to say that some level of moderating and oversight needs to be in place.\u00a0 Because if the mainline, liberal Protestant denominations suggest anything, it\u2019s that a great way to turn the Faith into something in desperate need of Viagra is to tell the people that the most important sacred text in their lives was really a pack of myths, tales, fables, and quite frankly, lies.\u00a0 Whatever fiery revival might occur, that is sure to pour water on it.\u00a0 So well done Fr. Longenecker!\u00a0 Way to take the bull by the horns.\u00a0 It is at least a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"