Father Dan Strikes Again

 …playing the Nazi card is a typically a sign that historical illiteracy is at work.

Not necessarily on the part of the speaker, though that’s not a bad bet. 

The exclamation “READ ANOTHER BOOK, ELOI!” rockets through my cerebellum on a too-regular basis. 

No, it can also be a recognition by the speaker that he’s talking to crowds whose familiarity with the first half of the 20th Century is limited to Inglourious Basterds or The English Patient.

They don’t make many movies about communist atrocities, even though plenty of Catholic clergy and religious have sucked up to the hammer and sickle. 

So keep that in mind when reading that Fr. Daniel Horan lazily slandered the nun who spoke at the RNC by comparing her to a German nun giving the Nazi salute. 

Now, I don’t know what to make of the President’s sincerity on abortion, and his personal life has been a trainwreck of adultery. But his actual record on the issue has been a lot better than those whose sincerity has been less open to question. It can be safely said that he recognizes it is important to people who vote for him, so he attempts to deliver.

I wouldn’t have done the fulsome endorsement Sister did–nope. But Fr. Horan’s Godwin/Whataboutism hybrid was grotesque, and cleverly-evaded engaging with the substance of the nun’s speech. As did his “sorry you misinterpreted it” non-apology.

Go here to read the rest.  Father Dan is no stranger to this blog.  Go here to read more about him.  I daresay that Sister Colonel Doctor Dede, go here to read about her, has probably managed to do more good on one of her average days as a surgeon and a religious than Father Dan has managed to do in his entire life.  I wonder if he bothered reading anything about her before he decided to libel her?  Scratch that.  I really do not wonder.