Lidless Eyes and the Jews
Against the Grain, which is the blog of the Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club, posts some interesting comments on certain Dubious sources in Catholic Family News. Being a traditionalist myself, and having publicly confronted Michael Hoffman over this same issue on a traddy email discussion list five or six years ago, I can agree with Christopher’s following conclusion: “Traditionalists may have legitimate grievances about the post-Vatican II church and the right to express them — and it is entirely possible to do so in a respectul and credible manner. However, one can only conclude that Vennari’s high praise of such a controversial source as ‘one of the finest contemporary books on the subject of the Talmud’ in the pages of Catholic Family News can only result in the further tarnishing and discrediting of the Catholic traditionalist movement.”
As many Catholic Light readers are aware, this problem is nothing new when it comes to the fringes of the traditionalist movement (which is why I stick pretty closely to more moderate Ecclesia Dei organizations.) Here’s an interesting little piece Michael J. Mazza wrote some time ago for Fidelity Magazine entitled No Ordinary Bishop.