Modernists now decide that "Christian identity" is evil
Father de Sinety attacks “Christian Identity”: The new fashionable peril After populism, now “Christian identity” has become suspect. In his new essay, Father Benoist de Sinety claims he doesn’t want to “judge,” only to “warn.” But behind the pastoral precautions and calls for dialogue lies an implicit indictment of those who still believe that Christianity cannot survive without memory, without roots, and without civilization. One modernist among many who control the Church The book’s starting point is skillful. In “The Cause of Christ: The Gospel Against Christian Identity,” Father Benoist de Sinety begins with a personal confession: his limitations, his vulnerabilities, the social decline of the priest, the disappearance of a sociological Christianity. The tone is human, almost Augustinian. He evokes family lunches, scouting, generations united around a shared Catholic culture. Then the narrative gradually shifts toward a central thesis: the main danger today is not so much the disa...