[wideawake]

James Carroll is a bitter ex-priest. A good rule of thumb is this: whatever James Carroll says, the Catholic Church teaches the exact opposite.

Think of him as a kind of inverse catechist.

[hellinahandcart]

The fact that Kerry attends the same church as James Carroll is a strike against him---since he attends Our Lady of the Far Out, or whatever that odd is-it-really-Catholic?-church in Boston in called...

[madprof98]

Carroll goes farther and farther away from Christianity with every word he writes. In his last book, as I recall, he argued that the gospels themselves were fatally flawed because they promote hatred for Jews. In his mind, his "faith" is grounded in a Jesus that he knows better than the writers of the New Testament did . . . because, of course, he made that Jesus in his own image. It's easy to see why he identifies with Kerry.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

And Kerry is neither Irish nor Catholic nor even remotely "ethical" in even a pagan Aristotelian/Platonist sense. You don't have to be an expert on Thomistic natural law theory or Catholic theology to figure out that Kerry's positions are COMPLETELY incompatible with the Catholic faith.

Promoting abortion on demand and the manufacture of human embryos in labs to be slaughtered for medical research have never been permissable for Catholics. Nor could they EVER be. Kerry is hopelessly deranged and off the High-Weirdness radar in Frankenstein land.