Excerpt from American Trotskyist James P. Cannon 's review of novel " Moon Gaffney "

  [ But even within this narrow framework, a terrific indictment is brought against the higher ranks of the Catholic clergy of New York in general, and its Irish section in particular. "I’m half Irish” says the Catholic newspaperman Schneider, “and I hate their insane pride of race and of religion and their incredible fatuousness… What I hate is a priesthood that lacks both charity and humility and has misled and confused its people until they mistake black for white, hate for love and darkness for light. A priesthood that has substituted chastity for charity and frequently a chastity so warped and misinformed that its ultimate fruits compare with those of lust.” ]


               In  Radical Ron's opinion " Moon Gaffney " was neither anti- Catholic nor anti-Irish just anti-clerical .


 James P. Cannon reviews anti-clerical novel " Moon Gaffney "