I would like to put paid to the a certain awful untruthful rumor

It is evil and wrong and spoken of in terrible whispers designed to whip up religious intolerance in the U.S.A.

The worst sort of people traffick in this rumor, people who want power by way of the incitement of hysteria, it is in a word contemptible.
I speak of course, of the entirely fictitous rumor, that Junior Senator Scott Brown is a Catholic, and even more ominous a Roman Catholic.
Nothing could be further from the truth, Scott Brown is a lifelong Calvinist Evangelical a member of a Protestant sect so safe so respectable that they even let real living people join up.
It is a LIE that Scott Brown spent any time at that Jesuit Madrass otherwise known as Boston College...I mean yes he went to the Law School but it's not like he inhaled any lingering Falangism in his Contract Law class.
Undoubtedly he met and talked with Roman Catholics of many different persuasions while he was there but that is all part of the rich and diverse exposure to other cultures Scott Brown received as a youth.
It made him a better person, comfortable in strange cultures unfamiliar to the West.
It certainly doesn't make him a radical covert adherent to the One True Apostolic Church of Rome or a secret Jesuit Acolyte or a closeted Novitiate of Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Honestly, these rumors are false and utterly malicious...the way people talk about the guy you'd think he was Bishop Sheen's bitch or something.
Terrible
Just Terrible.