This Should be Fun – The American Catholic gets a call from You Know Who. Not the U.S. Dept. of Justice, which would have been bad enough, but from the pope’s man for lable protection.

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The long arm of the Vatican reaches out to an online publication suspiciously calling itself The American Catholic.

Message: You have to be certified — or (presumably) you will have to ditch the Catholic part.

To adapt a 1935 Sinclair Lewis title, It can’t happen in the 21st-century church.

via This Should be Fun – The American Catholic

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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2 thoughts on “This Should be Fun – The American Catholic gets a call from You Know Who. Not the U.S. Dept. of Justice, which would have been bad enough, but from the pope’s man for lable protection.”

  1. Maybe all the non-approved Catholic sites could be grouped together in one url called “The Index . com.”

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