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Dogma’s Bulldog

Why has a smart journalist written such a simple defence of the Catholic church?

Michael Valpy

Why Catholics Are Right

Michael Coren

McClelland and Stewart

228 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 9780771023217

Michael Coren is a social conservative voice in Canada’s news media who has credibility and respect from both the public and many of his liberal journalistic colleagues.

He has written biographies with favourable international reviews of H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. He has been a columnist for all four Toronto newspapers.

He has co-hosted (with Irshad Manji) a public affairs program on Ontario’s public television station, TVO. He has hosted a talk show on Toronto’s popular CFRB radio. He has hosted for six years the Michael Coren Show on Crossroads Television.

He is smart. He is knowledgeable. He intellectually bounds through life.

All of which makes his new book, Why Catholics Are Right, difficult to figure out. The question is not so much “what is it?” as “why is it?”

He has written a Ninja Turtles defence of the church, a reference that parents of boys...

Michael Valpy is a journalist and author. Through a long career at The Globe and Mail, he served as foreign correspondent, national political columnist, member of the editorial board, and deputy managing editor before leaving to teach in 2010.

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