It didn’t surprise me that a few of the readers who responded to my last NCR column about Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City accused me of anti-Catholic bias.
This is an old and ridiculous charge, and I could waste time working up some outrage about the way some readers misread me — at times, I think, willfully.
But instead, let me give you an incomplete list of what this Presbyterian loves about the Roman Catholic Church. Then you decide whether, as one reader charged, I am “a very prejudiced man” and have “deep malice towards the Church.”
- I love many of the priests I’ve known over the years. Same with many of the nuns. I call several of both groups good friends. Read more
