{"id":253,"date":"2004-08-28T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2004-08-28T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T22:46:00","slug":"253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Witches Next Door”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crisis<\/em>, a conservative Catholic magazine, offers a new article on evangelizing Pagans<\/a>, which such quotes as these:<\/p>\n

“Why should Catholics care about a religious system so alien to ours? The simple answer is: It\u2019s there, it\u2019s growing, and some ex-Catholics find it attractive. (A more flippant answer: Look at what we have in common; after all, we\u2019ve both had problems with Protestant Fundamentalists and been maligned in Jack Chick comics<\/a>.)”<\/p>\n

It all comes down to the usual stuff: Jesus trumps the Horned God. Catholics should set aside any distaste with Paganism long enough to drag us back into the True Church.<\/p>\n

But Crisis<\/em> has bigger image problems right now: editor Deal Hudson has had to resign as President Bush’s liason with Catholic voters after some skeletons fell out of his <\/em> closet, as revealed by the National Catholic Reporte<\/em>r here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Wendy Griffin<\/a> for the original link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Witches Next Door” Crisis, a conservative Catholic magazine, offers a new article on evangelizing Pagans, which such quotes as these: “Why should Catholics care about a religious system so alien to ours? The simple answer is: It\u2019s there, it\u2019s growing, and some ex-Catholics find it attractive. 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