After months of painstaking research and serious scholarly inquiry, I have uncovered a comprehensive list of all of the available “Options” that we Christians of 21st Century liberal America can exercise during these most unsettling times. You’re welcome.
- Cupich Option – I’m ok, you’re ok
- Ligouri Option – You’re definitely not ok and neither am I; in fact we’re probably both going to hell
- Romanides Option – The Franks are definitely not ok
- Bandera Option – Poles and Russians are definitely not ok; Ukrainians, however, are
- Balthasar Option – In the end, we’ll all be ok
- Francis Option – Teen joblessness and lonely octogenarians are not ok…neither is global warming
- Kennedy Option – However I choose to read the Constitution is ok…and the law of the land
- Ignatian Option – Red wine and sumptuous meals are A-Ok
- Old-Calendar Option – Everything is ok as long as today is June 24
- Bartholomew Option – Recycling is ok, and maybe abortion, too
- Lefebvre Option – The liturgical books of 1962 are ok; the Novus Ordo Missae is not
- Cekada Option – Neither of those things are ok, but believing the papal see is vacant is
- Lewis Option – Pedestrian theology and hard-on-the-nose allegorical kids books are ok
- Kierkegaard Option – I wish I were ok…
- Marion Option – Ok-ness w/o Being
- Schmitt Option – Friends are ok, enemies are not
- Straussian Option – Great thinkers say one thing is ok, but really they mean it isn’t ok, unless they do
- Schmemann Option – Interpreting the liturgy mystically is not ok
- Garrigou-Lagrange Option – To understand the concept of “ok” we must first turn to Cajetan’s authoritative…
- Alfeyev Option – Uniates are not ok; ecumenism is ok, unless I am talking to the Russian press
- The Remnant Option – Most things in the Catholic Church are not ok, and we’re going to tell you over and over…
- Kallistos Option – Birth control is not ok, then again maybe it is sort of ok. Never mind, now it’s ok
- Palamas Option – Seeing God’s uncreated energies is perfectly ok
- Thomist Option – No it isn’t
- Benedict Option – To be determined
July 8, 2015
I’ll take the Ignatian.
July 8, 2015
Tru dat. As they say, the Jesuits take the vow of poverty, but the diocesan priests keep it.
July 8, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjV-SHCDlec
And for those of you who need to know the words:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/davematthewsband/typicalsituation.html
July 13, 2015
I keep looking for a “like” button on this…
July 8, 2015
I wish I _were_ OK — ‘were’ is the subjunctive of ‘to be’, not ‘was’..
July 9, 2015
Fixed. I need a better grammar checker when I write tongue-in-cheek posts. Do you want the gig? It pays in…love.
July 13, 2015
I could use more love.
July 9, 2015
You left out Opus Dei. For some reason.
July 9, 2015
I guess my claim to comprehensiveness was fraudulent.
July 10, 2015
The Anti-Gnostic option: The Hasidim/Amish/Mormons/Muslims are OK, evangelization is not OK
July 11, 2015
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July 12, 2015
The Gnostic Option: This, then, is the Tetrad begotten according to the likeness of the Uncreated (Tetrad).