‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ Demolishes the “Benedict Option”
Further evidence that the highest circles of the Church disapprove strongly of the “Benedict option”, the “historically-conscious antimodernist return to roots” gaining traction amongst American and European Catholic conservatives intimidated by the complexities of ‘post-Christian’ society. The influential Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolicaran last week a strongly-worded article in which it alleged that the Benedict option “brings the…