The question is blunt and entirely justified in our time: and Bishop Barron is entirely in agreement. Barron goes directly to the modern roots with its distorted definition of “reason” owing to Kant and his Enlightenment presuppositions. Whose definition of “reason” then are we talking about?

Bad and evil ideas have been far more virulent in history than silver, gold, or geopolitical schemes. Our modern errors arose out of the weeds of bad Christian soil, fueled by concupiscence and backed by diverse and mighty powers. King Henry VIII’s ecclesial revolution in England, born in lust and ending in the vast dissolution of the monastaries, was the first major frontal assault. This was aided in no small part by schizoid Reformation errors culminating over time in the age of the so-called Enlightenment, in concert with all the ideas and mixed brews of the ancient mystery religions and pagan practices which, as if risen from the dead, assaulted Catholic Christendom. All of this anticipated and refracted the evil light to come and which we are living through…. Continue

But is Tucker nervous?

Is this the Catholic Church of the Future?