Universities pay historians to research, understand, and explain revolutions in order to help us comprehend our present circumstances. Most social upheavals such as the 1789 French Revolution and the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power are top-down. Revolutionary regimes always count on the servile obedience of their subjects.
Universities pay historians to research, understand, and explain revolutions in order to help us comprehend our present circumstances. Most social upheavals such as the 1789 French Revolution and the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power are top-down. Revolutionary regimes always count on the servile obedience of their subjects.
Can we reject Magisterial Teaching if it wasn’t believed Always, Everywhere, and by All?
The True Meaning of the Canon of St. Vincent of Lérins
“Cafeteria Catholicism” is a fitting label often used to describe the position taken by overt Modernists and other pseudo-Catholic liberals (especially politicians) who like to pick and choose which Church teachings to accept and which ones to reject. Usually what is accepted is those things perceived as politically correct, expedient, or simply non-offensive (for example, the existence of God, the importance and power of prayer, belief in an afterlife, or the importance of loving our neighbor); whereas what is rejected is usually those teachings that are politically incorrect, offensive to modern man, or somehow inconvenient or burdensome (for example, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, the prohibition against worship with non-Catholics, the reality of an eternal hell for unrepentant sinners, or most sins against th