The New Faithful

Michael, over at Sacramentum Vitae posted about a book called "The New Faithful" by Collenn Carroll Campbell. I haven't read it yet, but I think I'll have to add it to my "to read list." Here's an excerpt from his post that I found insightful.

One of the many differences between orthodox and "progressive" Catholicism is that the former is generative and the latter is not. The reviewer hopes that is remediable from his prog standpoint. It isn't. For one thing, progressive Catholicism defines itself largely in terms of what it's against—i.e., orthodox Catholicism, the only brand of religiosity that doesn't earn respect in the prog pantheon of "diversity." Beyond such rather diffuse negativity, what particularly animates progs is the conviction that the Church ought to accept modern, Western values about sex and gender. But to the extent people accept and live by those values, their birth rate goes down. That is why the birth rate in most developed countries, including the United States, is now below replacement level. The people who reproduce and grow are, by and large, adherents of traditional religion. Accordingly, the future holds far more orthodox Catholics than progressive Catholics. That is as inevitable as it is welcome.

As I've heard a couple of my friends say before, "If we can't beat 'em, we'll outbreed 'em."