What about the Crusades?(COLUMNIST) From: Catholic Insight | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Catholic Insight. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The unholy trinity. The Crusades, the Inquisition and the Church doing nothing during the Holocaust. The three grenades thrown at Catholics by people who know even less about Catholicism than they do about history. If these don't work, toss in some nonsense about Galileo or clergy abuse. Or just shout and scream.

I wrote about the attacks on the Church's record during the Second World War in an earlier column. It's a virtual blood libel, with a tiny trickle of truth but oceans of bigotry and anti-Catholicism. As for The Crusades, it's not only secularists who moan on and on ...

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