Check this out. The leadership of the Catholic Theological Society of America protests against being labeled “left-leaning.”
Let’s get this straight.
The CTSA is committed to real theology. You know the buzz words: “the task of critically examining the faith,” which of course involves “dialogue” and “discussion” and “vigorous disagreement.” These are the virtuous people committed to process.
There are other people, unnamed of course, who “confuse theology for catechesis.” I suppose they are the folks who lack critical faculties and don’t do the dialogue/ discussion thing. Authoritarians no doubt, maybe even (gasp) fundamentalists who think that the Church teaches substantive truths that one must affirm and defend in order to be a Catholic theologian.
No left-leaning in this implicit and invidious contrast one. No, none at all.
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