Attack the bishops for not being pure enough.<\/a><\/p>\nOne of the measures of health is the preference for converts over the urge to squint at heretics. Unfortunately, many conservative Catholics seem to prefer to attack the insufficiently pure instead of thanking God for allies in this extremely important fight.<\/p>\n
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve never understood this. The bishops are urgently protesting the Obama Administration\u2019s attack on religious liberty. Even the National Catholic Reporter and a number of lefty journals like Commonweal are figuring out the gravity of the assault. So what does Judie Brown at ALL do? Attack the bishops for not being pure enough. One of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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