Paul Schlichta at American Thinker provides commentary how Notra Dame got so, well, liberal. And it sounds, well, so familiar, if one is an American Lutheran. Schlichta writes,
The process started a century ago, when the Catholic Church was attacked by a group of internal heresies that Pope Pius X collectively defined as “modernism“. This vague and polymorphous movement, which one might call “Catholicism Lite”, was a rationalistic reduction of the Bible to mythology and of Catholic doctrine to tentative opinions that could be changed to suit the mood of the times. Pius X attacked modernism within the Church so vigorously that for over half a century, Catholic clergy and schoolteachers had to take an anti-modernist oath. But there was always an underground movement of modernistic liberal theologians, waiting for an opportunity to “bring the Church up to date.”The hopes of these crypto-modernists were revived when Vatican II was convened. Now at last, the Church would set aside its mythological doctrines and, at the very least, abandon its archaic prohibitions against homosexuality, divorce, contraception, and abortion. Or so the secular media predicted and the liberal theologians hoped. But none of these changes took place; Vatican II modified Catholic rituals but left its doctrines and moral code intact.
HT: Jill Stanek.
