Is this what you call a "devout Catholic?" That is what the New York Times says, you know.
(Alexander Drago/ Reuters)
Wrong.
Well, is this what you call a "devout Catholic?" The New York Times says that, too.
(T.J. Kirkpatrick / New York Times)
Nope. Wrong again.
Okay, well what exactly is a "devout Catholic," for example?
(Wikipedia)
Now you've got it. That's right. But tell the NYT, because to them it may be news they don't seem to know.
Another way of showing it: A "devout Catholic" is the kind of person that a President, like President Ronald Reagan, gives the Medal of Freedom, if it comes to that:
(Wikipedia)
People who are actually devout Catholics are not hard to find, NYT people. Sometimes they are even as close as Wikipedia.
The New York Times has shown some lazy anti-Catholic bias in recent reports calling certain people "devout Catholics." I have told the New York Times that they need to learn what a "devout Catholic" really is before they use that phrase again in their witting or unwitting service of nasty anti-Catholic prejudices. See for example this December 11, 2019 article posted here, NYT, AGAIN: CALL THEM BY THEIR TRUE NAMES. Rebecca Solnit. Today's article shows an actual devout Catholic, a person as a good example, one from whom the New York Times and all of us can learn what it means to truthfully say a person is a "devout Catholic."
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