[Cronos]

so, please stop the knee-jerk anti-Catholicism. The difference between what an anti-Catholic thinks the Church is all about and what the Church actually teaches is quite wide.

[Mad Dawg]

I wouldn't say, because I don't know, that TDAMB is succumbing to knee-jerk anything -- except the knee-jerk reporting by somebody else, maybe.

I think we all, including Catholics, need to be prudent when we encounter stories that prompt an "Ah-HAH!" in us. If things that are 'too good to be true' rarely are true, so, more than likely, are things too 'juicy' or too perfect to be true.

Right now the MSM are doing everything they can to pin the Tucson massacre on the right in general and on Palin in particular. But the more facts come to the surface, the harder it is to pin that tail on those donkeys, uh, elephants, whatever.

We ought at least to think about using the same discretion we expect the newsies to practice. We're all outraged when they don't use their critical faculties, and rightly so. Maybe when a story appears that "perfectly" shows how weird the Catholics or the OPC's are, maybe we could step back and take a breath and check our assumptions and our sources.