Intellectual Decline of Catholicism

Another tired headline in the paper today : " Bishops to

    intensify fight against abortion ". They want crusading Catholics

    to target Catholic politicians -like the Kennedys who have too

    much political savvy to listen.

          I believe it is indeed unprincipled to identify yourself as

    a Catholic if you simply cannot accept fundamental doctrines of the

    Church. Still I can't help thinking that intellectual " free thinking "

    Catholic politicians -in countries shaped by the traditions of Western

    Civilizations - can SAVE the Church from its own toxic tendencies.

          Any Catholic with half a brain can see that the Church can

    only recruit imbeciles - the type that hang around women's clinics

    all day with their pathetic placards , crucifixes, and mile long

    rosary beads- for its holy crusade against abortion.

         The Catholic Church of the Cold War Era - personified by

    the TV personality, Fulton J. Sheen - was a much more intellectually

    formidable institution . Would Sheen have had a vast TV audience if

    he had obsessed on one evil - abortion ?

            The intellectual life of the Church is being suffocated by

    a spiritually unhealthy monomania.