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Entry: Remembering WFB Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/remembering_wfb#22704 Post contents: One last thought: my old European intellectual history teacher, the benevolent Communist H. Stuart Hughes (benevolent because he gave me a pretty good grade even though I did little of the assigned reading), once told us that you can never defeat an ideology with facts, you can only defeat it with a superior ideology. I assume that if we substitute "dogmatic theology" or "moral theology" or "pastoral theology" for "ideology" the saying still holds. Tradition is clearly superior to Modernism and Liberalism: it merely awaits the propitious moment, to come in God's good time, for that to become apparent to all. Who knows, perhaps what will precipitate this will be another "divine surprise". Or if we're lucky, something not quite so drastic. Sent at: 2008 11 23