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Maureen Dowd comes from a similar Catholic background as myself.

She has done an excellent job covering the mess in the Catholic Church and of course has been criticized for her attacks by people like Patrick J. Buchanan and Bill Donahue, Catholics themselves.

Anti-Catholicism and the Times
Posted on April 5th, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan

“Anti-Catholicism,” said writer Peter Viereck, “is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.” It is “the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people,” said Arthur Schlesinger Sr.

As the Catholic League’s Bill Donahue relates, 80 percent of the victims of priestly abuse have been males and “most of the molesters gays.”

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/04/05/the-anti-catholic-times/


I wouldn't classify either Mo or myself as "Anti-Catholic."

I will say Rome doesn't get it. Not on the child abuse issue or women as priests. If Mary Magdalene was alive today the Pope would be throwing the first stone in St Peter's Square.

Links to some of Mo's articles,


Rome Fiddles, We Burn
By MAUREEN DOWD
What do women becoming priests and priests molesting boys have in common? Plenty, according to the Vatican.
July 18, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/opinion/18dowd.html?ref=maureendowd


Worlds Without Women
By MAUREEN DOWD
A Latin letter and more bad news for Pope Benedict XVI.
April 11, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11dowd.html?ref=maureendowd

The Church’s Judas Moment
By MAUREEN DOWD
A brother’s solemn thoughts on the crisis in the Catholic Church.
April 7, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/opinion/07dowd.html?ref=maureendowd

Devil of a Scandal
By MAUREEN DOWD
Don’t go there, Vatican. Why is the Catholic Church more prone to self-pity than self-reflection?
April 4, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04dowd.html?ref=maureendowd


Should There Be an Inquisition for the Pope?
By MAUREEN DOWD
The Catholic Church, which gave up its credibility for Lent, can’t hide behind smoke and mystique as it faces a cascade of child sexual abuse cases.
March 31, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/opinion/31dowd.html?ref=maureendowd


A Nope for Pope
By MAUREEN DOWD
The Catholic Church, where “The Enforcer” could use an enforcer.
March 28, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28dowd.html?ref=maureendowd


Eraser Duty for Bart?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Nuns’ support for the health care bill has been dismissed, largely because the bishops and the pope would rather deprive people of good care than look soft on abortion.
March 21, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21dowd.html?ref=maureendowd

Make no mistake about it there are a lot of Catholics that are more than a little irritated by the latest pontificating coming out of Rome.

As I explained to the woman who runs our church's Faith Formation program at our church and defends the Pope. Popes come and go. There have been some good ones and there have been some bad ones. Benedict is one of the bad ones.

She is a convert and new to the religion. I explained to her while she looked at me in shock, brush up on your history of the church then we'll talk.