“Is the Catholic Church under attack?” reads the headline of a recent article by Slate’s Molly Olmstead.
Why does she have to ask? Churches are being vandalized all over the country. There have even been attempts to burn them down. Yet Olmstead blames the “Catholic right” for its “premature or recklessly dramatic” concerns – though she concedes that “to be fair, anecdotally there does seem to have been an increase in vandalism on churches.”
Anecdotally? Seems?
