It is rare indeed when I suggest heavy reading to you guys.

It’s a call to calm-the-hell-down from a program director at the Catholic University of America.

As long timers around here know, the local Catholic priest and I have a long dark history of testing the limits of righteous indignation.  There’s a standing joke around town that he’s tried to perform an exorcism on me several times, but I ‘m more wiggly than a bucket of fishing worms and he can’t keep ahold of me.

I’m printing this piece of proper thought and taking it over to his secretary today.  If you have a Catholic friend who thinks birth control is wrong but poverty, war, and capital punishment is dandy, you might want to make a copy for yourself to hand out.  Dr. Stephen Schneck does for Catholics what Bill Moyers does for Baptist – keeps you from thinking they are all idiots.

Thanks to Corrine for the heads-up.