Meeting the World to Convert the World - First Things

Meeting the world to convert the world

In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the “senseless [Catholic] culture war quarrel” and taken another tiresome sideswipe at Bishop Robert Barron’s criticism of “beige Catholicism,” informed us that [...]

Meeting the World to Convert the World

Wikimedia Commons Pope John XXIII presiding the opening Mass of the Second Vatican Council. COMMENTARY: In proclaiming Jesus Christ as the answer to the question that is every human life, Catholicism is, was, and always will be a culture-reforming counterculture.

Meeting the World to Convert the World - First Things

In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the “senseless [Catholic] culture war quarrel” and taken another tiresome sideswipe at Bishop Robert Barron’s criticism of “beige Catholicism,” informed us that we must recover Vatican II’s vision of “a Church determined to meet the modern world.” Yet as I thought I had demonstrated in two books (The Irony of Modern Catholic History and To Sanctify the…