‘It’s called pushback. Deal with it.’

• From Modestinus: The way of Dignitatis Humanæ. A middle path between those who hold religious liberty up as an absolute right and those who condemn it as a great evil.
• From the Anti-Gnostic: Why doesn’t the GOP use the Zimmerman case to try to get the Hispanic vote it so badly wants?
• The ugliness of fallen humanity and its modern culture of death:
  • Like Roissy, Sunshine Mary shows white knights why not to put girls on a pedestal (the feminists’ childish entitlement minus responsibility): the ugliness of extreme hypergamy.
  • From Hilary: We have abortion because it gets people what they want, and the social pressure against conversion. ‘Think you’re better than me?’ P.S. She’s right that World Youth Day is naff.
• From Ad Orientem: (Ex-Orthodox) Catholic online pushback against online Orthodoxy. The convert boomlet recedes, with some backlash, after some of these little churches tried to expand by taking the shortcut of bringing in obnoxious anti-Catholic Protestants. Real Orthodox tend to be very nice: like the old American Catholicism but minus the Pope (Owen White: Midwestern OCA is Catholicky). Related: old-style assimilation. Who else has noticed that Rod Dreher doesn’t hang out with them? I’m not one of his haters but he seems like Mr. Lifestyle Accessorization, understandably mad at the church because of the big gay clergy scandal but having tried to join the cool kids by renouncing the Pope. My guess is either he’ll come back, since he’s promisingly not de rigueur anti-Catholic enough, or wig out like Franky Schaeffer, who used to be a conservative pundit too. Modestinus hits it out of the park, and Teena Blackburn’s not an online Orthodox; she left the church but tells it like it is, like a good trad. A few guesses: convert Orthodox tend to be 1) mostly marriage converts just like before the fad 20 years ago, like Tom Hanks and the plot of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (the only golden-era born Orthodox and Greek Catholics I’ve known who switched were that), 2) devout Protestants who read their way into high church (latter-day Tractarians) as Teena describes, and 3) semi-unchurched nominal Catholics, plus a small minority of the pious reading their way into Orthodox opinions like in Teena’s description, but devout Novus and trads don’t normally ’dox.
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