{"id":568,"date":"2012-04-19T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=568"},"modified":"2012-04-19T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:42:22","slug":"ross-douthat-on-podles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/ross-douthat-on-podles-568.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ross Douthat on Podles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will do a review of Ross Douthat\u2019s <em>Bad Religion<\/em>, but I am certain the man is acute, perceptive, and discerning, because he said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As\u00a0 Leon Podles put it in <em>Sacrilege <\/em>(2007), his magisterial [yes!] and sickening [all too true] history of clerical sexual abuse, both \u201cnew errors\u201d and \u201cold errors\u201d were at\u00a0 work in the Church\u2019s scandal \u2013 relativism and clericalism, permissiveness and\u00a0authoritarianism, the worst impulses of liberalizers and traditionalists intertwining in an awful tangle of corruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people told me that they began the book but couldn\u2019t read it \u2013 what I was describing was too awful even to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Father Richard Neuhaus hated the book.<\/p>\n<p>George Weigel was sure I was grossly exaggerating \u2013 but it turned out it was even worse than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Dolan was introduced to me at a reception; the name clicked, because as he turned away he said \u201cI am familiar with your writings.\u201d The tone, although I wouldn\u2019t characterize it as hostile, was not exactly the friendly tone he had assumed with everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>But at least Ross Douthat saw what I was trying to do.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-568\" data-postid=\"568\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-568 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will do a review of Ross Douthat\u2019s Bad Religion, but I am certain the man is acute, perceptive, and discerning, because he said this: As\u00a0 Leon Podles put it in Sacrilege (2007), his magisterial [yes!] and sickening [all too true] history of clerical sexual abuse, both \u201cnew errors\u201d and \u201cold errors\u201d were at\u00a0 work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[642,643,641,290],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy-sex-abuse","tag-bad-religion","tag-clerical-sexual-abuse","tag-ross-douthat","tag-sacrilege","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}