Rod Dreher, here, wonders why Catholic novelist/windbag Walker Percy is “almost forgotten” and unwittingly supplies the answer by quoting from a speech Percy gave at Notre Dame (I’m guessing, the Indiana one, but, really, who knows) upon receipt of the “Laetare Medal”—whatever the fuck that is: “It’s no accident that I think that German science, as great as it was, ended in the destruction of the Holocaust.”
Yes, it was all because of that great scientist, Adolph Hitler, whose virulent brand of race-based anti-Semitism was first hatched in, let’s see, Catholic Austria and Catholic France. Walker Percy is forgotten, and deservedly so, because he was a tedious, self-important old fart who, one strongly suspects, believed that the Jews killed Christ.
