"The Da Vinci Code is fiction. In real life, a multi-year cover-up at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church of horrible crimes by the leader of a major religious order affiliated with reactionary politics simply couldn’t happen. Could it?" – Mark Kleiman, yesterday.
I notice that, like many pieces of news that help expose the rotten core of theoconservatism, National Review has yet to mention that one of its favorite Catholic prelates, Father Maciel, protected by their favorite pope, John Paul II, has just been acknowledged as a sexual abuser – by the Vatican. At least Neuhaus felt the need to say something.
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