“How much do they pay you to turn your back on your own people?”
James Carroll knows where the money is.
The former Paulist priest has a made a career of attacking the Catholic faith—his most famous work, Constantine’s Sword, is a cartoonish rant against the Church’s majesty and power, worthy of the cheapest fundamentalist tract or the most poorly researched Game of Thrones-tier Atheist Reddit post.
For his work in betraying his faith as well as his own Irish Catholic heritage, the former “Fr.” James Carroll has been lavished with money, awards, and a visible platform from which to rage against the Church.
His most recent thirty pieces of silver were given for an attack on the institution of the priesthood in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly.
In the bluntly titled, “Abolish the Priesthood,” Carroll outplays the Catholic left by placing the blame for endemic homosexual rape by Catholic priests not on clericalism, but on the nature of the Catholic priesthood itself. (more...)
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