Father Barron critiques Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve."

Greenblatt wants to tell a riveting story by posing his "good guy" against a "bad guy," which is, for him, the Catholic Church, but to do this he has to promote a strawman that the Catholic Church was all about asceticism and blind faith.



By the way, I liked Greenblatt's "Will in the World," although I noticed that a lot of his more "gosh wow" insights were based on a lot of "cantilevered speculation" and therefore should be taken with a moderate-sized grain of salt.

Via Aggie Catholics.