What Church History REVEALS About Leo’s Pontificate: Burke, Miriam & Schneider’s Analysis ... We thank Dr. Ed Mazza and LifeSite News' John Henry Westen for giving The Catholic Monitor permission to post a series of probably four or five transcriptions of this important show. This is part three of the series: Westen: How did the cardinals deal with it when they had to confront them, and how they even determined that they were anti-popes. I mean, obviously, this time is mega confusing. You have the best people on either side. It reminds me of what our Lord said in the Scriptures, "In the end, even the elect, if it be possible, will be confused." Give us some examples from history of how bishops, priests, and cardinals dealt with the same kind of a thing. Mazza : One of the earliest examples we have is from one of the darkest parts of the Dark Ages. We have St. Columban, an Irish missionary, who went throughout barbarian Europe bringing the faith back. And at the time...
"His [Fortin] criticism of modern political thought was precisely that politics increasingly became organized around competing rights, interests, structures, and power claims, rather than the classical question of virtue and the common good. So Fortin might ask Wauck: Even if China is being unfairly contained, does that by itself establish that China represents the just alternative? The answer is no.... Wauck may correctly identify some genuine abuses of American power, but he risks replacing one ideological simplification with another—interpreting world history as a struggle between an “Empire” and its geopolitical opponents, without sufficiently asking whether those opponents themselves embody justice, virtue, or the common good. And that criticism would apply even if many of Wauck's individual factual claims about China, Russia, Israel, or American foreign policy turned out to be correct"
If we reconstruct the question from Fortin’s actual philosophical method , I think he would criticize Wauck less for which geopolitical side he favors and more for the philosophical framework through which he interprets politics . Fortin repeatedly criticized both the modern Left and Right when they tried to appropriate Christianity for a political program. He emphasized the distinction between classical political philosophy, Christianity, and modern political ideologies. 1. Fortin would probably object to Wauck's overarching geopolitical narrative Wauck's formulation— “the Anglo-Zionist war on the world is really all about—subjugating China” —turns a very complicated collection of international events into a single historical drama with one underlying antagonist and one underlying objective . Fortin would likely ask: What philosophical or historical evidence establishes that these diverse events constitute one coherent “war” directed toward one ultimate objective? That is c...
