Sunday, April 24, 2005
Mark Shea's dissident round-up
Containing such knee-slappers as
Greeley:
Women -- and not only in the United States -- are very angry at the church. It is no exaggeration to say that many of them, devout Catholics to the core, will tell you they hated John Paul because he hated women.
and
Fox:
He is also committed to elevating the rich and powerful, such as Escriva, fascist sympathizer and founder of Opus Dei, to sainthood.
Note to Fox: St. Josemaria Escriva wasn't a fascist sympathizer. More damningly, he's already a saint, and has been so for a while now . . . I mean, fascism we can dispute about, but on the sainthood part, you'd think you'd do a little fact-checking before you opened your mouth. He was made a saint by the fascist sympathizer, woman hating John Paul II, at which time tens of thousands of non-fascist women went to Rome for the ceremony.
Greeley:
Women -- and not only in the United States -- are very angry at the church. It is no exaggeration to say that many of them, devout Catholics to the core, will tell you they hated John Paul because he hated women.
and
Fox:
He is also committed to elevating the rich and powerful, such as Escriva, fascist sympathizer and founder of Opus Dei, to sainthood.
Note to Fox: St. Josemaria Escriva wasn't a fascist sympathizer. More damningly, he's already a saint, and has been so for a while now . . . I mean, fascism we can dispute about, but on the sainthood part, you'd think you'd do a little fact-checking before you opened your mouth. He was made a saint by the fascist sympathizer, woman hating John Paul II, at which time tens of thousands of non-fascist women went to Rome for the ceremony.
