It’s essential to distinguish between prudential advice of a pope and the actual teachings of the Church.

Juan Cole and Ivory Tower Anti-Catholicism

by Robert Spencer

The recent controversy over public funding of contraception, as well as Rick Santorum’s presidential candidacy, have given rise recently to a good deal of tendentious and ill-informed comment on the Catholic Church. Ironically, one of the most outstanding examples of this faulty and false commentary appeared in “Informed Comment,” a blog written by Juan Cole, a Leftist history professor at the University of Michigan. Cole clearly intended his piece, which he entitled, “Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Ignores,” to be revealing of Santorum’s supposed hypocrisy; all it actually reveals, however, is Cole’s ignorance, and that of the Leftist academic establishment of which he is a part.

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