You can take the boy out of Harvard, but you can't take Harvard out of the boy. Bob McElroy's views are very much aligned with those of his elite cultural and socioeconomic class. The Cupich-Tobin-McElroy vision for the Catholic Church in America already exists in the form of Episcopal Church USA (i.e., favoring women's ordination, app…
You can take the boy out of Harvard, but you can't take Harvard out of the boy. Bob McElroy's views are very much aligned with those of his elite cultural and socioeconomic class. The Cupich-Tobin-McElroy vision for the Catholic Church in America already exists in the form of Episcopal Church USA (i.e., favoring women's ordination, approving of homosexual acts, open to same-sex marriage, tolerant of legalized abortion and the politicians who favor it, etc). Sadly, at this point, it's clear beyond of a reasonable doubt that the powers that be in Rome very much favor that direction as well. But ultimately the ordinary faithful vote with their feet. The Episcopalian model is an abysmal failure, and that sect is headed for oblivion. And there's nothing that Bob McElroy et al. can do to make it succeed for Catholicism. You can't put lipstick on a pig. When I think of the future of the Catholic Church in America, I think of young priests who are still learning the traditional Latin Mass, and young Catholics like the guys who made the splendid Mass of the Ages documentary that has racked up hundreds of thousands of views.
You can take the boy out of Harvard, but you can't take Harvard out of the boy. Bob McElroy's views are very much aligned with those of his elite cultural and socioeconomic class. The Cupich-Tobin-McElroy vision for the Catholic Church in America already exists in the form of Episcopal Church USA (i.e., favoring women's ordination, approving of homosexual acts, open to same-sex marriage, tolerant of legalized abortion and the politicians who favor it, etc). Sadly, at this point, it's clear beyond of a reasonable doubt that the powers that be in Rome very much favor that direction as well. But ultimately the ordinary faithful vote with their feet. The Episcopalian model is an abysmal failure, and that sect is headed for oblivion. And there's nothing that Bob McElroy et al. can do to make it succeed for Catholicism. You can't put lipstick on a pig. When I think of the future of the Catholic Church in America, I think of young priests who are still learning the traditional Latin Mass, and young Catholics like the guys who made the splendid Mass of the Ages documentary that has racked up hundreds of thousands of views.