By William Kilpatrick, The Catholic Thing - Ironically, one of the factors that is driving people out of the Church is its response to Islamic terror… the Church’s handling of the Islam crisis is also, in effect, a cover-up… While emphasizing surface similarities between the two faiths, they have papered over the deep differences. Moreover, they have downplayed and even denied the violent nature of Islam… Church leaders haven’t quite figured out that when Islam talks peace it really means war, but ordinary Catholics are not so Pollyannaish… Catholics can see with their own eyes, we can expect that many more Catholics will become alienated from the Church…