I find it outrageous that someone who teaches at a Catholic university is not demonstrating even basic skills at the academic process here. He should be embarrassed to submit a piece like this. If I were his professor, I would probably fail this paper. This piece is loaded with inflammatory rhetoric, faulty logic and very little documentation to support claims. I could probably spend an hour just dissecting the first paragraph. Sentence after sentence is chock full of misleading and outright false statements, one right after the other. But his supporters will just dismiss these concerns because 'any critique is just the secular left who can’t handle the “truth” of their brand of Catholicism'. The formula is: 'They are right because they have the truth, and opponents are wrong because they disagree.' I am not surprised when I find this with uninformed fundamentalists, but when this brand of anti-intellectualism is rewarded with the statue of a professorship, I cringe for the future.