Friday, April 9, 2010  Newsweek Does It Again  Lisa Miller from
Newsweek is at it again. Her favorite advesary, the Catholic
Church, sells a lot of books and magazines when you throw it
under the bus. So, why stop? She sure got this one wrong again,
just as she did when talking about heaven recently.  Here is one
snip that should get us going, as she talks about women in the
Church: The problem—bluntly put—is that the bishops and
cardinals who manage the institutional church live behind
guarded walls in a pre-Enlightenment world. Within their
enclave, they remain largely untouched by the democratic
revolutions in France and America. On questions of morality,
they hold the group—in this case, the church—above the
individual and regard modernity as a threat. We in the
democratic West who criticize the hierarchy for its shocking
inaction take the supremacy of the individual for granted. They
in the Vatican who blast the media for bias against the pope
value ecclesiastical cohesion over all. The gap is real. We d