Got this month's issue of Catholic Men's Quarterly. It is the new expanded version (48 pages) and is the best yet. There is a great article on Malta-makes me want to visit or even live there for a bit.
But best so far (I haven't finished the issue yet) is a piece by Charles A. Coulombe called Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. Here's just a tiny snippet of it, on Romanism:
"Paul Blanshard warned that American Catholics put the teachings of their Church over the laws of their country...Blanshard sounded the alarm against traditional Catholic oppostion to divorce, birth control, untrammeled media, and separation of Church and State. Give the Papists a chance, he declared, and they would make this a Catholic country!
"Groups like... the National Catholic Welfare Council angrily retorted that America's Catholics had no such plans. They were just as committed, so the Catholic leadership maintained, to the American status quo as anyone, and had proved their devotion to things as they were by the oceans of Catholic blood shed in this country's wars. Alas, they were right, and Blanshard was wrong."
You have to buy the magazine to read the rest. (Great picture on the cover too.)
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