{"id":13843,"date":"2013-02-20T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13843"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T22:52:26","slug":"where-theres-a-wills-theres-a-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/02\/where-theres-a-wills-theres-a-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"Where there’s a Wills there’s a Heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"

You just might be a heretic if you get intense questioning from Stephen Colbert and then America Magazine writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now it should be obvious to even the most casual Roman Catholic that Mr. Wills\u2019s views are definitely heterodox and probably heretical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Saying \u201cprobably heretical\u201d is a bit of an understatement as the things Gary Wills speaks and writes on are often heretical. As Tom Piatak for Crisis Magazine notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By my count, Wills took positions anathematized by 14 different Canons of the Council of Trent in this brief interview<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You just might be a heretic when Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter writes Garry Wills Please Go Away<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The longer you listen to Wills the higher the heresy counter rises. As a Catholic when Wills gets done with his caveats there isn\u2019t very much left of the faith. Although there is a consistency to his madness as he started by attacking the pope, and then the Eucharist , the priesthood, and even books in the biblical canon fell with it. Don\u2019t like the history of the Church\u2019s teaching then invent a Great Apostasy to suit your needs. After all this method was good enough for Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses.<\/p>\n

Remember the kerfluffel over the late William Buckley for having supposedly written \u201cMater si, Magistra no\u201d? It was actually a quip of Gary Wills that Buckley had referenced. Nothing has changed in the decades since he had first made that quip \u00a0other than the expected result that underlines it .<\/p>\n

References: The Strange World of Garry Wills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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