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Entry: Remembering WFB Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/remembering_wfb#22676 Post contents: Let me echo the sentiments and thoughts of my friend Woody Jones, as he apty put it. Back in the late 'sixties Buckley edited a little volume, I believe its name was A SIGN OF CONTRADICTION, with essays that clearly pointed to the connection between the Sacred Liturgy and civilization. More, writers like Evelyn Waugh, Hugh Williamson, Thomas Molnar, and Dietrich von Hildebrand (very profoundly) recognized that the destruction of the "sacred WORD" meant far more than just a change in the kind of language used. Of course, it was all part of a large current, what was then with expectation called an "aggiornamento"--but what was really an "apertura a la siniestra." The praxis since the 1960s was to seize upon the modern spirit--sometimes termed the "spirit of Vatican II"--and move Left, adopting and adapting the nostrums that came from the Frankfort School, Teilhard, and John Courtney Murray, and advancing them, and while never openly denying the Truths of the Faith, certainly altering the Truth in praxis and application. Even Paul VI lamented that the "smoke of Satan" had entered the Church. Certainly, early on, William F. Buckley recognized this, but like many "conservative" Catholics, he passed on and tacitly, if not actually, accepted the practical changes that were thrust upon him, at Mass, or in practice. And, as well, NR made the "long march" from its convictions of the 1950s and '60s, when one could praise a Taftian foreign policy, or oppose the Civil Rights bills, or defend the Old South, to now, with Young Turk "neo-cons" at the helm, whose views Buckley would have denounced fifty years ago as extreme leftist.... May his soul rest in peace. Sent at: 2008 11 23