Friday, September 25, 2015

Rock, Meet Hard Place

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan is irredeemably Roman Catholic. This is not often a problem even when on occasion it makes her columns of interest only to co-religionists.

Pope Francis' emphasis on redistributionist liberation theology-based nostrums brings her Catholic side into conflict with her conservative political side. If you're interested in how Noonan deals with the conflict, this column provides an answer.

She does a lot of "on the one hand ... on the other hand" kind of looking for a pony in the manure pile. Frankly, it isn't pretty despite her best efforts.