STOP reading the "catholic" bloggers at Patheos and Aleteia
My fellow Catholics: STOP reading the "catholic" bloggers at Patheos and Aleteia
Austin Ruse, the President of C-FAM (Centre for Family & Human Rights) a New York and Washington DC-based research institute focussing on international legal and social policy, has written an important article in Crisis Magazine.
Various writers there have taken an anti-historical and anti-catholic stance on the great and pure, Saint Maria Goretti. You all know the story of this holy virgin, I do not need to repeat it here.
What I do need to say is this.
Simcha Fisher, Mark Shea, Mary Pezzulo, Father Dwight Longenecker (yes, him too), Dave Armstrong, and many others write "click-bait." They receive their income from their writing and every click at Patheos and Aleteia feed them. Some, such as Mark Shea, goad people into fighting in the combox with him, a direct attempt to get more "clicks."
Not only that, in the case of Patheos, they also feature pages on Wicca, Paganism, Atheism and more. Why would any …