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When I read \u201cNational Catholic Reporter endorses women priests<\/a>\u201d my first thought was, \u201cDidn\u2019t they do that years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently not.\u00a0 So now they\u2019ve come out and said what it was obvious they\u2019ve been telegraphing for 30 years.\u00a0 It\u2019s good to have clarity on their doomed dedication to something that Ain\u2019t\u00a0 Gonna Happen and their devotion to the Spirit of the Age over the teaching of Christ and the apostles, I guess.\u00a0 I like know where people stand and prefer frank and open Wrongness to mealy-mouthed,\u00a0 euphemistic\u00a0and evasive Wrongness.<\/p>\n

Eventually, progressives who are deeply devoted to implementing the Third Vatican Council are going to be confronted with an actual Third Vatican Council that is, like the once-dreamed-of progressive dissenter successor to John Paul II, going to severely disappoint them by remaining orthodox.\u00a0 What they will do when that becomes clear\u00a0 is anybody\u2019s guess.\u00a0 The world being as weird as it is, they might wind up making common cause with uber-Trad secevacantists to denounce the Church as failing to be Truly True Catholic. When Herodians and Pharisees can scheme together to kill Jesus and Hitler and Stalin can buddy up, anything is possible.\u00a0 In parody of real ecumenism there is such a thing as Satanic Ecumenism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"