Word: postconciliar
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...good conscience. The result has split the nation's Catholic intellectuals into two warring groups, the "conciliari," who follow the Council, and the "Pa-celliani," who hold to the views of Pope Pius XII, the former Eugenio Pacelli. By supporting Catholic candidates, the Communists hope to exploit this "postconciliar" split. They now hope for more open Catholic support, both from ordinary voters and vocal Catholic intellectuals...
...imprimatur. According to canon law, any book by a Catholic layman or cleric dealing with faith or morals must be cleared by a diocesan censor and approved for publication by a bishop, normally shown by the Latin word imprimatur - meaning "Let it be printed." In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned...
...love for Catholicism's old Latin liturgy. The requiem that honored his death was as up-to-date as the church allowed. The funeral Mass - concelebrated by nine cardinals, two archbishops, seven bishops and one priest*- was conducted entirely in English, in accordance with recent reforms of the postconciliar church. The predominant liturgical color of the service was penitential purple rather than funeral black -reflecting the tone, attuned more toward hope than sadness or mourning, of modern Catholic funerals. Notably absent from the service was the beautiful but chilling sequence Dies...
...Grill. Priests see many reasons for the decline in frequency of confessions. One cause is the emphasis in the postconciliar church on the primacy of conscience-which means that lay Catholics are now far more certain of themselves as to whether or not they have sinned. "I used to consider anger a sin," says one Los Angeles housewife who goes to Communion frequently, although she has not been to confession since Christmas. "But now I simply don't feel guilty about yelling at the kids." Another is the repugnant medievalism of confessional practice-lining up before a dark, grilled...
Without question, much in postconciliar Catholicism still needs reforming -as even Pope Paul has admitted. Without question, too, archaic laws governing personal behavior still frustrate and hurt some of Catholicism's loyal sons and daughters-and few of Father Kavanaugh's readers will doubt that his concern for their human tragedies is both passionate and sincere. Nonetheless, many Catholics who hope and pray for renewal may have cause to suspect that Kavanaugh's angry and oversimplified criticism can only hurt rather than help the forces of change within the church...