"I suspect that many priests and bishops are really immanentists. They are, deep down modernists. That is, they reduce the supernatural to the natural at every turn. I don’t like that idea, but, right now, I think we have evidence that it’s true."
UPDATE Concerning something I ranted about below, I read this at CNA: Updated: Springfield, Mass. diocese rescinds policy permitting nurses to anoint Thanks be to God. One hour after the publication of the story below, the Diocese of Springfield informed CNA that it has rescinded its permission for nurses to conduct the physical anointing during the celebration of the anointing of the sick. The diocese declined comment regarding the decision to rescind its policy. BTW… my old pastor drilled it into me that if a person is dying and not compos sui, Anointing is the sacrament to give, because it can also forgive sins in that circumstance. And there’s this, from a priest friend… Speaking of the Sacrament of Anointing, I think it would do well to remind priests of the following: “There is also the common opinion that if Extreme Unction is the only hope of salvation, e.g., if the dying man has not been to confession for a long time and can be absolved only conditionally now because unconscious …