“Diversity” Is Not Catholic
September 19, 2016
WOLFGANG GRASSL writes at Crisis Magazine:
The frantic quest for “diversity” is a deeply anti-Catholic impulse. It finds no support in Catholic moral and social teaching. There is no mention of diversity as a goal of Catholic life in the Catechism of the Catholic Church or in any of the pastoral, moral, or social constitutions and encyclicals before and after Vatican II. Diversity has never been advocated by the great thinkers of the Church, who have instead preached unity. And there is a good reason for this glaring absence: Catholics marvel at the natural diversity of God’s Creation, at the difference in people, animals, landscapes, plants, and languages. They want to preserve as much of this diversity as is possible, because it enriches all of us. But they will resist disturbing the order God has willed for the world. Erecting skyscrapers in the Sahara Desert, crossbreeding species, developing artificial languages, dying our hair green—all of these increase diversity, but at what cost? Artificial diversification drives out the natural diversity of God’s very good Creation. Enticing students of a particular race from a distant big city to move to a small rural one, or making every effort to prioritize gay and lesbian candidates for faculty positions, does not exactly exemplify the improvement of the world to which Christians are called.
[emphasis added]
— Comments —
Steve writes:
Fantastic article. I feel the author, with profound eloquence and depth, explains very well what Traditionalist Catholics, and other Christians, have instinctively known about all along: That Christianity, particularly Catholicism, is not a “wee are the world, wee are da children”, kumbaya, one-world humanist “religion” – but the True, inerrant, everlasting gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In essence, not ‘political correctness’, but Biblical Correctness.
We really need to hammer this fundamentally salient message home, again and again, to anti-Christian pagans, and (Churchian) “Christians” alike.
Laura writes:
Exactly.
God loves diversity. True diversity. Not multicultural homogenization.
