In his new book, Michael Coren does battle with enemies of Catholicism | Holy Post | National Post

By Charles Lewis  (from the National Post)

Michael Coren looks relieved, a bit tired too, like someone who has finally returned from a long march into hostile territory, which in a sense he has.


In his just released Why Catholics Are Right, his 13th book, the broadcaster and columnist does battle with the myriad enemies of his beloved and adopted Catholic Church. It is thoughtful and logical but built on a well of impatience and anger with those who feel they can kick around his religion.


“There is no languor and lace about me,” he said from his home in Toronto. “I don’t like it when people refuse to think.”


In Why Catholics Are Right, he is pugnacious, perhaps channelling something of the spirit of his late father, Phil, a London boxer, cab driver and Royal Air Force veteran who was the son of Polish Jews hounded out of their homeland by pogroms. Read more