New issue now up.
October 31, 2006, 6:09 pm
Posted by Grant Gallicho
We’ve been hacked! Sort of. The home page wasn’t updated yesterday because someone or something dropped malicious code into our user database, which crippled our ability to post new content. After many unhappy hours of digging for the problem, I now support abrogating habeas corpus. Hackers, we’re coming for you.
In the meantime, here are the highlights:
- Andrew Greeley reviews David Gibson’s new book on the pope.
- The Editors delve into Dean Hoge’s troubling new study of the recently ordained.
- Richard Alleva reviews Martin Scorsese’s latest, The Departed.
- And dotCommonwealer Cathy Kaveny tries mightily to change my mind about eviscerating habeas corpus.
When it comes to hackers, I suspect the Cardinal Newman Society, or perhaps, Tom Monaghan
I nominate Dominic Bettinelli, Bill Donahue or Mark Shea.
Color me delightfully paranoid … but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get you!
Nice to read Greeley again which I haven’t done for awhile. This seems better than Gibson’s other book The coming Catholic Church.
Greeley is right to say that the faithful are not between Commonweal and First Things but rather more towards the center.
Ratzinger is pretty hard to figure out. It will take some time. Greeley thinks this is a good thing. We’ll see.
I don’t buy Hoge’s conclusions at all . The reality is that parish priests are reverting to how dumb they were before Vatican II. He says as much when he refers to the 60′s priests, who were different because they wanted to serve their parishioners, rather than just wait to become a pastor someday.
The problem now is these uneducated priests, like pre Vatican II are becoming pastors quickly. Maybe the fact of their youth (I mean in terms of experience) will allow them to be more open to people rather than a robot of the diocese.
Priests were never that well educated as a whole, except for the Jesuits. Now that the laity are more educated the action will be interesting.
There are other factors going on like VOTF and many other Catholics who are demanding a voice. Maybe changing the structure and tranparency in financing will happen.
That is more important than an educated or uneducated priesthood.