AmericanPapist Comments
Well, no one's perfect
Not even B16? A shocking admission from the American Papist! :-D
On reflection I guess that was said in anger. ;)
And you know Mrs Palin was born 2-11, right? The Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes, when she first appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, the young saint who died the same day in the calendar Papa Benni was born, right? She in turn was born on St Distaff's day - the morrow of the 12th day of Xmas
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/bo.../book/
jan7.html traditionally a reminder that as Christ fulfilled his calling we are also expected to live out our own: weaving at the distaff (hence the female-line of descent in hereditary is termed the distaff-line) or tilling the soil.
What more perfect reminder to Catholics in a democracy gifted with a liberty unforeseen in history -- to use our particular privileges to protect the dignity of human life that our Lord's Incarnation and Theophany to the Nations revealed?
Of course, just because John Allen (who his always trying to portray Pope Benedict more "liberal" than he is) says so, doesn't make it so.
While Pope Benedict may have grown up in a climate in which it wasn't easy for a Catholic Bavarian to unreservedly identify with a Prussian-Protestant dominated German government, there is no doubt (he has often said so) that he is a German patriot. And while he may have admired some of the French theologians of the mid 20th century, I sincerely doubt that he can be said to be "Pro-French" in a general, let alone political way. He certainly has identified the French revolution and the ideas of the French "enlightenment" as some of the main causes of today's crisis of Western society, and also, since they have been adopted by many "liberal"/"progressive" Catholics, the Faith.
I wonder what will happen to Lourdes when France's population is majority Muslim?
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