Photograph by “Unsplash” [public domain / Pixabay] * * * [originally posted on 9-4-04] * * * * Recently, the anti-Catholic Pied Piper James White chided me on his Dividing Line webcast for not immediately speaking out against this figure (or similar ones; 23,000 is also often heard) when I was on the radio, after a caller mentioned it (mainly due to lack of time). A friend also wrote, asking for documentation, as to where these kinds of numbers can... Read more
Fr. Raymond Brown: Modernist Dissident?
Council of Trent (1588), by Pasquali Cati da Jesi (1550-1620) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] (4-3-09) He probably wasn’t at first, as these errors tend to get progressively worse over time. Even Hans Kung was fairly orthodox in his younger years. But at least in his later period, Brown was undeniably a dissident. But because certain dense, obscurantist, sophistical, fact-twisting opponents of the Church still don’t get it, and appeal to Fr. Brown as supposedly the quintessential “Catholic scholar” over... Read more