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“Do It Yourself Religion”: How Flannery O’Connor Predicted the Catholic Crisis

Flannery O’Connor described Southern Protestantism as a “do-it-yourself religion, and Frank Wright argues that the same mentality has now infected the Catholic Church. Drawing on O’Connor’s comments about Wise Blood, he contends that abandoning authoritative doctrine leaves people without a reliable means of correcting religious error. When everyone becomes their own pope, no one can be corrected. Wright applies this critique to Pope Leo XIV’s September 25 speech in Paris, arguing that the pope’s treatment of liberty, equality, fraternity, and religious freedom conflicts with traditional Catholic teaching. He directs viewers to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s September 28 LifeSiteNews article, which […]
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Traditional Catholics Silenced Under Leo XIV’s Call for Unity

Pope Leo XIV speaks of unity, inclusion, and love. But traditional Catholics are being locked out of churches, denied access to relics, and excluded from pilgrimages. This Faith & Reason examines the inconsistency between calls for inclusion and the treatment of the SSPX and faithful attached to the Traditional Latin Mass, including the denial of access to relics during a pilgrimage in Ontario. The discussion turns to President Trump’s decision to limit certain media organizations’ access to the White House, contrasted with a guest’s account of a Catholic journalist allegedly threatened with exclusion from Vatican events under Pope Francis. The […]
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