By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, May 17, 2024
Austin Ruse is a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine. He is president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC. He is the author of several books including, Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic (Crisis Publications). He can be reached at austinruse@c-fam.org.
The lazy lies of the Catholic Left need to be called out, as they were recently by Bishop Robert Barron.
How I wish I had the legal muscle of Bishop Robert Barron, who has sent not one but two legal threat letters to Commonweal because midwit Massimo Faggioli said Barron was a part of what he calls the “Trump-Strickland Axis,” whatever that is.
Commonweal removed the offending paragraph of this nonsensical piece and, in its place, left a sneering note that they figure Barron thinks it’s slanderous to be associated with Trump or something. Barron, good for him, is demanding they take down the sneering note and has alerted the Commonweal staff to preserve all communications about the piece because he intends to sue.
Naturally, Commonweal and their fellow lefties at the National Catholic Reporter got all lathered up. How dare a bishop legally threaten the laity! …