Thursday, October 26, 2006

"Inconvenient facts--always screwing up a good whitewashing."

Dale Price gives a fisking for the ages to James Carroll's Boston Globe article on Pope Benedict's Regensburg speech. Given the vitriol and flat-out misrepresentations rampant in the article the fisk is, unfortunately, well deserved. Wouldn't it be nice if more Catholics actually liked being Catholic instead of seeing it as a platform from which to launch their secularist tirades, as if being a Catholic gives one some sort of authority on what Catholicism is and means over and above what the Pope, Bishops and Church as a whole would say? Some day, maybe...