I don't know if Bill O'Reilly is trying to convince us or himself that he's a good Catholic; but he sure does invoke his religion at every opportunity. His March 7th column was an interesting screed where Bill, once again, scolded everybody, including the Catholic Church. At the same time he made sure that his readers know that while he's a "sinner" (Ya think!) he's OK with Jesus because he attends weekly mass. Meanwhile, according to Gawker, he's trying to damn his wife's soul to hell! What a paragon of Catholicism!!!
In the article, Bill laments that religious observance is nowhere like it was in the good old days when Catholics, like altar boy O'Reilly, put their asses in the pews because they would be going to hell if they didn't. Bill also informed us, again, that this country was founded on "Judeo-Christian principals" which is, as we know, just not true. (Bill should read the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the Treaty of Tripoli, and anything by Thomas Paine.) Bill chastised the Catholic Church for not doing enough to fight against secularism including "unfettered" abortion (those nasty slutty sluts!) and gay marriage - a ridiculous claim given that the Catholic Church has spent millions to defeat gay marriage starting with Prop 8 and extending to the anti-gay marriage initiatives in 2012. The well funded Catholic Bishops' lobby group continues to fight for repressive abortion laws and any liberalization of abortion laws. There is actually an order of Catholic priests, whose leader is frequently on Fox, dedicated to criminalizing abortion.
Poor Bill tells us that "we are in an age of anti-religion." But for Bill, it's not all bad because "it is worth an hour a week to think about things of a spiritual nature in order to try to improve my life. I even turn off my cell phone. In pursuit of a higher calling, it is just not needed."
Funny, Jesus could have talking about Bill O'Reilly when he said "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.") And about that evil gay marriage thing. IMHO, it's better for kids to be brought up by a gay couple than a hypocritical Catholic zealot who is ratting out his ex-wife to the local priest just so she will go to hell. Just saying...
NOTE TO BILLY
You are in the wrong business. You should do standup comedy.
Sexually harassing women on my phone, having a doctor murdered and now my wife leaves me just says I’m Sooooooo Catholic!
A good Catholic harasses his wife because she couldn’t stand living with his overblown ego anymore.
A good Catholic stalks and abuses a co-worker to the point where she has to take him to court.Oh! yes Bile you are a Catholic Prince of a man.