Boston College Dean Says Faith, "stance in history"

This Jesuit, Boston College educator is stuck in the radical past and still talks of the Church in outdated terms which emphasize "messiness" and "change". Scabrous and decrepit old dinosaurs like this are really out of touch with the Church of today, tomorrow and always.

Describing the people he characterizes as Catholics of yesteryear, he makes this statement:

But faith is a stance in history; it doesn’t preserve us from messiness, or from change, including to religious institutions

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What kind of man uses the word, "messiness"?

(RNS) For generations, thousands of Catholics—from archbishops to people in the pews—saw the Catholic Church as eternal, timeless, and unmoved by the tides of history.

But the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s unleashed a sea of changes—none more significant than the recognition that Catholicism has, and continues to be, shaped by historical events, argues the Rev. Mark Massa in a new book.

Massa’s intellectual history, “The American Catholic Revolution: How the `60s Changed the Church Forever,” describes how celebrating the Mass in English, butting heads with the pope on birth control, and priests protesting the Vietnam War opened new possibilities—and controversies—in the church.

Link to the past at RNS...