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A conservative Catholic says the church should acknowledge the schism that divides it

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By Pat Cunningham

One of the more interesting aspects of THIS PROVOCATIVE COLUMN by Mark Judge, a part-time teacher at Georgetown University, is the counteintuitive way in which he labels the left and right wings of the Catholic Church:

It’s time for the Catholic Church to restructure and rename itself. It’s the only way to acknowledge the schism that has taken place over the last 40 years and is now reaching a crisis point.

Taking a cue from Judaism, the Church should now be divided into Orthodox and Reform camps. The liberals would be known as Orthodox Catholics. Conservatives would be Reform Catholics.

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