text: It might serve us all well for NCR to commission articles which explore the roots of how hate and hatefulness could and does become a driving force for some Catholics/Christians. While many, if not most, of us fall to the vice there are those who seem to find it their fuel and others who are expert at fomenting and igniting it. Yes to exploring venom as a concomitant to some disagreement. There is also the other dimension of those who exploit vulnerability and pander to hate-following disagreement.