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Title: Another point of view
Review: Philip Jenkins' recently-published book "The New Anti-Catholicism: the last acceptable prejudice" discusses the startling phenomenon of self-professed "Catholics" who, while rejecting the basic elements of the Catholic Faith as it has been understood for many centuries and giving vent to the sorts of anti-Catholic diatribe one associates with protestant fundamentalists of the most hair-raising variety, manage to avoid charges of bigotry because, after all, they are "loyal sons and daughters of the Church"! Jenkins offers some useful criticisms of Wills' pronouncements and those of other dissenters who, while seemingly tailor made for membership in the Episcopal Church in America (or some other mainline protestant organization), perversely cling to an ersatz "Catholic" identity. This phenomenon is one of the more impenetrable mysteries of modern life.
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