National Post - Oct 14th - response to Coren

Yes, my opinion is that Catholicism is flawed. That doesn't mean, as Coren suggests, that I am anti-Catholic. It means that I believe that one of its rituals is harmful to its priests, parishoners and untimately therefore to society. Furthermore there is nothing wrong with honest criticism of a religion by outsiders - as Coren does to Protestanism in his defence of Catholicism. Political correctness has gone too far. If a religion is valuable it should be able to withstand honest criticism of its practices and procedures as well as its doctrines. At least in the western world, criticism leads to improvements, and not to hatred and violence.