‘Dumbed-Down Catholicism Was a Disaster’

‘Luce:’ Mascot of The Dumbed-Down - The Tablet

During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was often cited by American seminarians as their favorite  professor — an exponent of dynamic orthodoxy whose engaging classroom style was a blessed relief from the stolid ways of the Roman academy. Later, after Pope John Paul II issued Fides et Ratio [Faith and Reason], the 1998 encyclical that set Voltaire spinning in hi…

‘Dumbed-Down Catholicism Was a Disaster’

America’s most watched bishop, Robert Barron, is scouting out a new future for Christianity.