Unfortunately, I read an article The Catholic Church is a Criminal Enterprise by Matt Taibbi, which really deserves nothing more than to be relegated to the trash heap of silly anti-Catholicism. Memeorandum saw fit to highlight it on their news aggregator. Why? I have no idea. If you really want to waste time reading this hate-filled piece of garbage, you'll have to Google it, because I would not honor it with a link. Then I find out that the Washington Post printed a pile of anti-Catholic doggie-do by Sinead O'Connor on Palm Sunday. I have no intention of even reading a screed written by someone such as Ms. O'Connor who has absolutely no credibility.
I did read a fine article in the National Review by George Weigel & Rev. Jay Scott Newman (who are credible) entitled Spreading the Big Lie. They ask the question, "Why did the Washington Post choose Palm Sunday to publish an ignorant and malicious piece by Sinead O’Connor on abuse in the Catholic Church?" Why, indeed...
Here's the bottom line for me. If you don't want to be Catholic, don't. I don't want to be Protestant, and so I'm not. Isn't that simple? However, I don't feel the need to go about bashing Protestants. The truth is exactly what Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said in 1938, "There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing."
