John Salza Apologetics. Crisis Magazine | A Voice for the Faithful Catholic Laity | Catholic Opinion. About Us. Today, there is a new crisis, spawned by the older—a crisis of rupture. Throughout the culture—and even in some parts of the Church—we see growing separation from our heritage and guiding principles. The crisis whirls around the Catholic laity’s difficulty in standing by Catholic tradition and letting it animate ideas and action in the temporal order. The clerical-secular discombobulation of the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s nearly shattered our ability to draw upon the wisdom and experience of the past.
The age upon us now combines a virulent hostility towards tradition and faith. Rupture, the eldest child of the secular-clerical liaison, marks the new age. Both as cardinal and as pontiff, Benedict XVI has described the mentality of this crisis as a “hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture” and called for the faithful to challenge this with a “hermeneutic of continuity.” Crisis has conceived its mission around the Holy Father’s insights. Staff at Crisis Magazine Charlie McKinney President. Harvesting the Fruit of the Vatican II | By Louie Verrecchio. THE REMNANT NEWSPAPER: The Christian Life.