E. J. Dionne, pleased with himself, tells us he’s not going to leave the Catholic church.
I’ve never been a fan of Dionne’s. He’s so centrist, so conventional, so smugly mainstream, so insistent on received wisdom.
So it figures that he would get all bristly at the idea that the Catholic church isn’t a wholly admirable institution.
He’s in a huff that FFRF ran that ad urging liberal Catholics to drop the ‘Catholics’ part.
… Read the restCatholic liberals get used to these kinds of things. Secularists, who never liked Catholicism in the first place, want us to leave the church, but so do Catholic conservatives who want the church all to themselves.
I’m sorry to inform the FFRF that I am
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