Anti-Christian hate mongers would be boring if they weren’t so dangerous. Lately, University of Minnesota biology professor P.Z. Myers has been attacking Catholic belief and practice, his comments veiled by his tissue-thin notion of “free speech.” Myers regularly blogs against anything vaguely religious. He has a particular penchant for anti-Catholicism. So he was wild with glee when a student at the University of Central Florida held a consecrated communion wafer hostage for a week. And yes, taxpayers, this is what you’re funding at state-supported universities.

(Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University and author of several books in Catholic Studies.)