David Cloutier, associate professor of theology, published a feature essay in Commonweal on the importance of a post-Vatican II appreciation of the Church's sacramentality and a defense of priestly ordination embedded within that larger ecclesial vision.
... There are a lot of ways to narrate divisions in the Catholic Church after Vatican II. One narrative is the power struggle between “liberals” and “conservatives”—ideological factions vie back and forth for control of institutions, engaging in palace intrigue to promote “their guys.” Others narrate a fundamental divide over the documents—the well-known debates about a hermeneutic of continuity versus a hermeneutic of rupture. ...
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