\u2026about the poison of bishop-bashing Folk Hero Worship that is rampant among self-proclaimed \u201cFaithful Conservative Catholics\u201d. <\/a> And before you so much as think it, I am not speaking about Fr. Pavone, who has obeyed his bishop. I am talking about the fanbase which has heaped abuse on his bishop in a way absolutely toxic and destructive to the prolife movement the fanboys claim to care about. I actually saw some self-proclaimed \u201cfaithful Catholic\u201d smear Bp. Zurek as a \u201cvindictive little queen\u201d the other day\u2013all because he made the perfectly legitimate insistence that a) Priests for Life given an account of their finances and b) Fr. Pavone take seriously his main vocation, the priesthood. Celebrity culture is absolutely toxic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2026about the poison of bishop-bashing Folk Hero Worship that is rampant among self-proclaimed \u201cFaithful Conservative Catholics\u201d. And before you so much as think it, I am not speaking about Fr. Pavone, who has obeyed his bishop. I am talking about the fanbase which has heaped abuse on his bishop in a way absolutely toxic and […]<\/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":[169],"class_list":["post-36678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-idols"],"yoast_head":"\n
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