tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post836598536452001425..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: Cherry Picking and Broad Brushing: Some "How-to" GuidesPaulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-32203624108012598402022-09-14T20:22:50.903-04:002022-09-14T20:22:50.903-04:00So many of the Bee's wild and crazy prediction...So many of the Bee's wild and crazy predictions have a habit of coming true. The Bee's opponents must hate that they are so easily predictable.Barb the Evil Geniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04635449477605703171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-84384560930045405022022-09-14T10:25:33.500-04:002022-09-14T10:25:33.500-04:00Why does anybody take this man seriously or bother...<i>Why does anybody take this man seriously or bother buying his books?</i><br /><br />My opinion: Shea's content fills a niche in the Catholic church. There are no shortage of Catholics on the left, however there is a shortage of Catholics on the left who care about Catholic orthodoxy of belief.<br /><br />If you look at articles in US Catholic, or National Catholic Reporter or even the Jesuit's "America magazine" you are going to find a lot of anti-Trump stuff but you will also find blatant disregard for Catholic doctrine.<br /><br />This disregard for doctrine is usually assumed rather than argued. Public Catholics like Father James Martin believe that throughout the entire history of the Catholic church, and before that in the Jewish faith, the prohibition against homosexuality has been morally incorrect. But AFAIK he hasn't actually stated this. His words and actions merely point to this being how he thinks.<br /><br />Shea's position is more nuanced. I could be wrong about this, but I haven't noticed him linking to a lot of stuff in USCatholic or NRCOnline. A lot of those people are people he used to skewer in the past; nuns and dissident priests who were mad as hell at the hierarchy and literally hated the last two popes, and some even hate Pope Francis and think he is a "phony progressive" (about which, fortunately, they are probably correct.)<br /><br />So this is his niche, and he gets between $900-1000 a month in his Patreon just to keep doin' his thang.Paulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-76611229645401643162022-09-14T07:16:30.107-04:002022-09-14T07:16:30.107-04:00He's got some comments on it now, a surprising...He's got some comments on it now, a surprising number of them pointing out that he's wrong.<br /><br />Of course his big rebuttals consist of "nu uh!" because the big book author and Catholic scholar... can't be bothered to do any scholarship in an age of search engines.<br /><br />Why does anybody take this man seriously or bother buying his books?Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.com