I am not interested in what Mr. Morrissey has to say.
One is that he mixes discussion of his religious beliefs with his discussion of politics over at Hot Air.
George W Bush did that, and I understand it was sincere, that his religious conversion was part of turning his back to a life that included heavy drinking and associated bad behavior.
But Ed Morrissey offers his Sunday Reflections, essentially on the sermon he would give on the Bible readings in that week’s Sunday Mass. There is a rule that only priests and deacons can speak their own words in a Catholic church, and there is probably a good reason for this. That the Sunday Reflections are interspersed with political content makes me uneasy for reasons that will take a TL-DR explanation.
Next, Mr. Morrissey has been in the vanguard of Never-Trumpism. Glenn Reynolds, The Blogfather, was initially Trump-skeptical, but he has reached accommodation with his blog readers enthusiastic about Mr. Trump. Morrissey’s Hot Air dealt with the enormous pushback in blog comments from Trump supporters by effectively shutting them out by putting comments behind a paywall. I can understand the need to raise money to keep a blog going, but I see what they have at Hot Air as a way of plugging one’s ears to criticism from who had been not trolls but earnest followers.
“But Ed Morrissey offers his Sunday Reflections, essentially on the sermon he would give on the Bible readings in that week’s Sunday Mass. There is a rule that only priests and deacons can speak their own words in a Catholic church, and there is probably a good reason for this.”
If I was running it, and knowing how much trouble priests and deacons can cause, I would have them only quote scripture.
I am not interested in what Mr. Morrissey has to say.
One is that he mixes discussion of his religious beliefs with his discussion of politics over at Hot Air.
George W Bush did that, and I understand it was sincere, that his religious conversion was part of turning his back to a life that included heavy drinking and associated bad behavior.
But Ed Morrissey offers his Sunday Reflections, essentially on the sermon he would give on the Bible readings in that week’s Sunday Mass. There is a rule that only priests and deacons can speak their own words in a Catholic church, and there is probably a good reason for this. That the Sunday Reflections are interspersed with political content makes me uneasy for reasons that will take a TL-DR explanation.
Next, Mr. Morrissey has been in the vanguard of Never-Trumpism. Glenn Reynolds, The Blogfather, was initially Trump-skeptical, but he has reached accommodation with his blog readers enthusiastic about Mr. Trump. Morrissey’s Hot Air dealt with the enormous pushback in blog comments from Trump supporters by effectively shutting them out by putting comments behind a paywall. I can understand the need to raise money to keep a blog going, but I see what they have at Hot Air as a way of plugging one’s ears to criticism from who had been not trolls but earnest followers.
“But Ed Morrissey offers his Sunday Reflections, essentially on the sermon he would give on the Bible readings in that week’s Sunday Mass. There is a rule that only priests and deacons can speak their own words in a Catholic church, and there is probably a good reason for this.”
If I was running it, and knowing how much trouble priests and deacons can cause, I would have them only quote scripture.