[steve86]

First, if you are Catholic and under the age of 60 or so, it is because the Church has been infiltrated by Marxist-homosexualists tasked with destroying the Church from the inside. Their father, satan, wants to convince...

I was sort of reading your comment from the bottom up and was thinking: My goodness, Mrs. Don-O's commentary is becoming radicalized to the degree I hadn't seen in the past. Most uncharacteristic of her and so different from the apologetics and ἀπολογία we typically see from her.

But I agree with most of what Annie says.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Ann Barnhart is a brilliant and courageous woman who sometimes overshoots the mark in order to make a strong point in a polemical mode. This is her mode par excellence.

I don't think you can always go to her safely for doctrine, since she tends to elide important complexities and go straight to the part that can be shouted. No footnotes.

That has its place. I still read her with respect and pleasure, and she never fails to challenge me in a good way.

But I read her with caution as well, because --- remember --- all the vices are wild virtues: virtues unlinked to those other truths by which they can be truly good and ordinate.

I'm tired. Must get up early for the 7:00 Mass - to pray for a deceased friend, not a Catholic, not even a Christian. Though perhaps, a woman whose faith is known to God alone.

Join me please: May the Lord graciously receive the soul of Sharon K, the Shape-Note singer.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta.