From TCRNews Musings
Mark and Louise Zwick write:
"It is most interesting that George Weigel places St. Francis of Assisi outside the Catholic tradition, but he himself seems to be more comfortable with Adam Smith, father of capitalism without restrictions, certainly not at the center of the Catholic Tradition.
"Weigel describes Dorothy in the same terms that Richard McBrien used in the National Catholic Reporter article of January 31, 1997, where he called her a saint, but stated that the countercultural approach represented by the Catholic Worker and the Catholic peace movement is not representative of the Catholic tradition. It's like a dissenting opinion."
"... Perhaps it is the Americanists, who take their inspiration from John Courtney Murray, who might more properly be called "sectarian," because they respond to the tensions between Church and world by restricting religion to a private affair and going along with everyone else in the public arena. This has never been the Catholic tradition.
TCR Note: It is our opinion that Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin represent the teachings and spirit of St. Francis sublimely, perhaps like none others save for the Franciscan saints.
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Perhaps it is the Americanists, who take their inspiration from John Courtney Murray, who might more properly be called "sectarian," because they respond to the tensions between Church and world by restricting religion to a private affair and going along with everyone else in the public arena.
It's statements like this that make me wonder if the Zwicks have ever actually read those who they denigrate as "the neocons." It's kind of hard walking away from reading Fr. Neuhaus' monthly editorials in First Things with the impression that he would like Catholics to keep faith cooped up in the closet. Same goes for Weigel, Novak, et al.
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