Whispers in the Wasteland

Blaming the Media?

Rod Dreher in The Corner points out an outstanding letter by Father Joe Wilson. It is in response to a letter calling on Catholics to support their priests and pointing the finger of blame toward the media. But this more than just a rebuke of a wrongheaded letter. It is a refreshing honesty. Let's hope there are more Father Wilsons out there.

"The real enemies of the Faith are NOT the attorneys, the reporters covering the stories, the pundits weighing in. Indeed, even Jimmy Breslin, much as I personally dislike his punditry, can't be counted as the real enemy. He's bush league, compared to the real enemy -- the enemy within. The enemy whose failure to oversee and govern, to guide and rebuke and foster the good has permitted over two generations that, within the house of God, dissenters could teach under Catholic auspices, preach with faculties and undermine the Catholic Faith and Liturgy; could administer seminaries in which every kind of aberration was tolerated; could bring things to a point where the Catholic father of his family has to fret over whether his son can be an altar boy, whether his children can be entrusted to the diocesan catechetical program." Posted by Bob at May 7, 2002 06:35 AM