No, that's true, Trudy, but I do think where he chooses to act and when is illustrative. And while I don't claim to know Benedict's true stance on the Holocaust, they do seem to line up with him on some other fairly odious thinking.
Yes. Oh yes. I do think its telling, I just didn't want to overstate, you know? I feel like hyperbole can be particularly harmful to useful discourse when the response can be "you're being bigoted against _________."
(
I
don't think you're being bigoted. And I think the notion of "Anti-Catholic bigotry" is almost always absurd when it comes to contemporary America. I just hate to give Bill Donohue and his ilk their soundbites pre-made.)
Pushy Yanks saved themselves on Titanic
Talk about your breaking news stories!
I swear, I'm never going to work again.
I'm killing time in the library while my car gets smogged by doing what? Surfing the web.
Sheesh. Read a book, woman.
Instead of using a browser that parses the URLs and refuses to go to any site that doesn't start with www. Hello. www is so 2001.
JenP, thanks for enjoying my catty gum remark. The posters on a board I used to hang out in did not so much. They took my irreverence for disrespect.
xkcd on the Presidential oath snafu:
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[as usual, read the alt text for the final punchline]
What date was the comic?
(Because I was sent to one about being a woman.)
ETA: saw punchline, couldn't find alt text.
I was listening to BBC last night and my understanding of the Holocaust denier bishop fiasco is that there was a group of bishops who were ordained (?) without the blessing of the pope, and so they were excommunicated..
This pope is trying to bring all the-I don't know what you call them- renegade sects? back into the fold. So, he wholesale welcomed this particular group back without knowing the holocaust denier's beliefs.
You put your mouse over the comic and get a box with more text. The text today is about the inauguration, but I don't get the connection with being a woman either.
I figure the pope is being more concerned with managing Catholics than worrying about what the rest of the world is thinking.
So, he wholesale welcomed this particular group back without knowing the holocaust denier's beliefs.
He had to have known. My officemate, when he heard that the people from this particular group were bring brought back in, responded with, "Oh, that crazy Holocaust-denial guy is going to get in the news with this one." If random American Catholic knows, then the Pope knows.
