The usual favorite boogieman of parents and right-wing Chicken Littles worred about The Terrorists usually wears a turban, and is depicted as one of Those Damn Muslims. Yet if you really look at it, it's the faithful of a different stripe who seem intent on bringing about The Destruction of America, especially when considered as The Enemy Within. A few examples should make this clear:

Timothy McVeigh, terrorist and mass murderer who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City. Catholic.

Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who passed secrets to the Soviets for two decades, including much information that led to the deaths of American operatives. Catholic to the max. In fact, he was a member of Opus Dei, the Vatican's very own al-Qaeda.

And now there's Bruce Ivins, who was apparently the Anthrax Terrorist. No innocent victim of Popish programming in childhood, this evil man actually converted to Catholicism before undertaking his nefarious deeds.

Well, I hope this knocks the scales from a few eyes, though I hold out little hope for change. Four hundred years since Guy Fawkes, and yet we continue to allow the Popish hordes to continue to live freely and walk freely among us. So in the end, it will be our own folly that does us in.

Ah, I love being scurrilous on a Sunday night.....