The Council of Nicaea at 1,700 Years Old

The Bishops of Nicaea were towering pillars of faith. We, mere shadows upon their shoulders, boast of seeing beyond their ability.

Published in Crisis Magazine on May 20, 2025

Perchance, you haven’t noticed. But for the past sixty years or so a pitched battle has been waged in the Church, something close to Jacobin revolution. Of course, its birth was simultaneous with a most prominent event. But even mentioning it would earn immediate censure, so, I will not. (So much for Synodal listening. I suspect Orwell was correct in Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”) 

On the one side, there are heroic Catholics who treasure the riches of their Church, from its metaphysical foundations, its infallible teachings, and its ancient liturgy and piety. On the other, we have a coterie of zealots bent on redefining the Faith, leaving it barely a shadow of its former self. Faithful Catholics have suffered greatly for over a half-century beneath the heavy jackboot of this band of agitators. Their project was a grand redesign of the Nicene Creed, if not casting it whole and entire into the dustbin of history. Need proof? Watch Cardinal Tagle only recently spinning about a stage in dance garb chanting John Lennon’s “Imagine.”  

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