Don’t Mess With Catholics
This at Power Line cracked me up.
Not Even Voltaire Believed This One
The ludicrous assertion that priests had “roamed the streets” hanging people after the Lisbon earthquake was made by Vargas, and apparently passed by one or more editors at the Post without raising any questions. The claim was then picked up and repeated by a number of other news sources.
It struck at least one person odd, however: a woman named Theresa Carpinelli. In the Catholic Exchange, she tells the fascinating story of her effort to get to the bottom of this smear against her church.
It’s not really true anymore. Catholics aren’t quite the force to be reckoned with they once were, except of course the Jesuits, who always seem to escape California laws affecting high schools (a bone of contention with me, as I went to a Brothers of the Holy Cross school), but the rest of the religion has been going through this big apologetic thing, much like, apparently, Australia. Perhaps we, too, are growing out of it.
February 10th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
History Revised again, by the Washington Post
And I thought the New York times story was a terrible act of wanton hubris. I had no idea the Washington Post would go so far to “one-up” the New York times. As reported originally by Power Line, in an article written for the post entitled “Seeking the