Et cetera He comes with a microphone & a sword
ET CETERA He comes with a microphone & a sword m Reporting in the Boston Globe Magazine (see "Crusaders," November 2), Charles P. Pierce offers a sometimes biased but more often sobering look at...
...He is not very tolerant of Catholics who don't toe the line, and waxes enthusiastic about a church purged of the disobedient...
...In the Globe Magazine article he morosely speculates on the possibility that our culture wars over abortion and homosexuality may eventually lead to actual civil war...
...McCloskey, who often appears on cable news shows, is always good copy...
...But, unfortunately, in the past, these types of things have often tended to end this way...
...I don't feel it's troubling at all...
...Less well known is the Reverend C. John McCloskey HI, a member of Opus Dei and a famed converter of the powerful (Bork and Brownback, for example...
...If American Catholics feel that's troubling, let them...
...They're called Protestants...
...As long as it's not a preemptive war, Father...
...Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kans...
...Many familiar names appear in the article, including Crisis Publisher Deal Hudson, papal biographer George Weigel, and recent coverts like former judge Robert Bork and U.S...
...My hope and prayer is that it does not end in violence," he says...
...McCloskey is the director of Washington's so-called Catholic Information Center...
...There's a name for Catholics who dissent from church teachings," he told Pierce...
...For instance, he has vowed to leave the church if it ever changes its teaching about artificial birth control...
...ET CETERA He comes with a microphone & a sword m Reporting in the Boston Globe Magazine (see "Crusaders," November 2), Charles P. Pierce offers a sometimes biased but more often sobering look at the power of Catholic conservatives both in the church and in Washington...
...McCloskey, once a stockbroker, likes to say provocative things...
Vol. 130 • November 2003 • No. 20
