Review: Apostles of Reason, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Review: Apostles of Reason, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: I sense a bit of anti-intellectualism in their approach.  You can extend this to the pro-life movement, where Catholics and Evangelicals unite against everything from abortion to birth control - regardless of the reality on the ground for women - especially the economic realities but also the health realities.  The Congregation for the Docrtine of the Faith has been particularly good at ignoring both modern academic moral and scriptural scholarship - not to mention biology - from Pius X (and probably IX) to the present day.  (Recall how former CUA scholar Charles Curran was hounded out of his position).  As for technology, the Vatican now has a website and there is an active Catholic blogsphere that on some days could be confused with an Evangelical one.  BTW: the biblically inerrant penalty for masturbation is to take a bath.  Hardly the stuff of mortal sin.