I, Snark
I'd always taken Rod Dreher for an enthusiast concerning matters ecclesiastical and gustatory. And who could find fault in an enthusiast since it takes all kinds? But I was disappointed to learn his zeal to persecute all wrongs foreign and domestic didn't extend to his new Orthodox Church of America. Now that's dirty pool. You can't change the rules in the middle of the game, can you? Zeal not directed everywhere - including at oneself - tends to stink (like guests and fish) after three days.
Inexplicably he was included in a book titled Best Catholic Writing 2007. An anti-Catholic writer being included seems so...'80s. As in been there, done that. Is this a case where the self-flagellations will continue until morale improves? It might be unfair to say so, but the book seems to me a bit too reminiscent of the West's general tendency towards self-loathing. I long for the day when there is accuracy in advertising - when anthologies with "Catholic" in the title aren't seen as too exclusionary if they have only Catholic authors.
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