No Room For Those Who Nail Heresies to Church Doors?

E. J. Dionne Jr. has officially joined the chorus of whiners mouring the resignation of Rev. Thomas Reese from America Magazine. Dionne's latest column, titled "No Room For Dissent?", is just another example of how misunderstood Catholicism really is.

Dionne writes "...I failed to see hostility toward the church in Reese's magazine" and disagrees that Rev. Reese was writing against the sacred Tradition of the Church "because I think we see tradition differently". In other words, Dionne thinks the very definition of sacred Tradition is open for debate. He goes on to quote Jaroslav Pelikan as saying "Tradition is the living faith of the dead" and "Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living" - a clear attack on those who (rightly) attune their thinking to what the Church has not wavered on for 2000 years.

If Dionne thinks traditionalists have a "dead faith", he ought to do a survey to see how many of us are frequenting the sacraments and actively contributing their time, money, and energy to different Catholic ministries and works of charity in comparison to the liberals. Those who are too proud to conform their thinking to Christ's usually have other priorities.