"A Catholic Spong, only with less intellectual rigor?" How can there possibly be less intellectual rigor than absolutely no intellectual rigor at all?
Spong employs (badly) a veneer of scholarship and usually grasps one concept in fifty in his books (then proceeds to beat the concept to death). Morwood gives every indication of not even understanding the Cliff Notes version.
That would be negative intellectual rigor. Not only doesn't it make sense but it makes surrounding folks make less sense too. Sort of an IQ based black hole. 
Douglas Adams once described the city of Los Angeles as being:
"Like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth."
I think that's the concept being targeted here.
Never go to the diocese bookstore. You're likely to find Catholic new age crap than orthodox theology.
Hello Kimberley,
I have not verified this myself, but I understand Bishop Bruskewitz's store up in Nebraska is not bad.
Hello Dale,
Fr. Fessio was telling some of us down here that Random House called up Ignatius and asked if they needd any help distributing Ratzinger's catalog.
Fessio paused for a moment, savoring the rich irony, given that Ignatius was the only one who would give Ratzinger the time of day on publishing his works in English for many a year.
"I told them 'Thanks but no thanks.'"
Life is pretty good at Ignatius right now.
On thing about Dominus Iejus: it was in part the result of Ratzinger's concerns about Assisi. That's one thing I don't expect to see repeated in this pontificate.
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