text: Catholics in this country were, for a long time, outsiders.  Now they have fairly well assimilated and are occasionally allowed to sit at the cool kids' table.  And then, interestingly, the first thing they do on a site like this is sneer at the new outsiders, the snake-handling, poison-drinking, toothless, inbred evangelicals.  Well, it's a tough job but someone has got to do it.