It is strange that Pope John XXIII initiated Vatican II. Angelo Roncalli was in most ways a traditional Catholic and steeped in a fundamentally Catholic view of this world and the next.
Courage and Faith
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Mark Fellows, the author who researched and wrote “Fatima in Twilight” (2003), in my opinion an extremely well researched, well-written and readable account of the Fatima story and therefore necessarily Angelo Roncalli’s strange fascination with the idea of a rapprochement between the Catholic Church and Marxism especially during his time of bring apostolic nuncio to France (1944-1953: he strongly supported the novel and eventually disastrous “worker-priest” idea), has a different and well documented viewpoint of Roncalli’s naive drift into strange uncharted philosophical waters.
Donald R. McClarey has a fun and interesting website. I just wish he wasn’t so pro-war. You can’t be pro-life and pro-war.
Not pro-war but pro courage, patriotism and the other virtues that men have displayed in war along with the many vices of war. War is not an evil but a symptom of underlying evils that cause wars. Confront those evils and we will have fewer wars.