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September 4th, 2008
Bad Catholics (or not)
Reflections on a recent poll from The Tablet:
Not so very long ago I saw a comic strip in which a man confessed to killing his wife and asked: “Does that make me a bad person?” It’s become a bit of a catchphrase for relativists. “Bad People” are evil people like Hitler and the Spanish Inquisition. I cheated on the test, but I’m not a Bad Person. I stole from my mum, but I’m not a Bad Person. I don’t go to mass, but I’m not a Bad Catholic. I’m a Good Catholic.
These figures are unhelpful without some kind of definition of a “good Catholic” and since everybody was left to define that for themselves I expect “a good Catholic” ended up pretty synonymous with “me”, because “I’m not a bad person”.




