by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 7, 2002

Just as Watergate brought all the Nixon-haters out of their holes to get in on the kill, the pedophile-priest scandal has lured from their dens the whole grinning jackal pack that relishes any opening to sink its teeth into the Roman Catholic Church.

“Is the pope Catholic?” is the smart-aleck title Catholic-baiters at the New York Times put on the nastiest attack on the Holy Father in memory. The author of Saturday’s screed is Times staffer Bill Keller, an apostate Catholic who enjoys being called a “collapsed Catholic.”