In a new book, George Weigel, one of the most confident voices on America’s moderate religious right, argues that Christianity has no choice but to be counter-cultural—and conservative
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskNearly 3,000 bishops from over 100 countries were invited. Such was the importance of Vatican II, as it is generally called, that Catholics still argue furiously about it. Each disputatious camp presents its own vision of Christianity’s future as the correct interpretation of the council.
Since it has little to gain from pandering either to the mighty or to the lazily liberal majority, Mr Weigel argues, Christianity has no choice but to be counter-cultural—and conservative. With characteristic fluency, he defends not only Vatican II but the entire centuries-old process by which bishops, meeting in council and praying for divine guidance, have wrestled with subtle doctrinal points and expressed them in complex texts that took decades to digest fully.
Conservatives such as the author often recall that their heroes, including popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, were active participants in Vatican II who in subsequent years never ceased to invoke the council’s spirit. To their admirers, both men had a keen sense of secularism’s advance, and of the need for the church to counter-attack.
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