Theology Professors Are Completely Irrelevant: Celibacy Memorandum

Manfred Lutz about the Theology-Memorandum: The great intellectual debate in German takes place without Theology professors in place.

Rome (kath.net) The famous psychiatrist and Catholic theologian Manfred Lutz rejected the suggestion in an interview with "Radio Vatican", that he had encouraged the authors of the controversial Theology Memorandum to leave the Church and become protestants. "That really didn't happen. What I -- psychologically actually -- found very interesting: I wrote an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung in the beginning of February which was intentionally unpolemical in an admittedly polemical debate and finally made the impression, that really wasn't the case. The people understood even an unpolemical article in a polemical debate, polemically."

Lutz insisted during the interview that the Theological Memorandum is about power and powerlessness. "I believe that theology professors in Germany have a lot of power -- if they really are at once professors, they could actually do, what they want, and teach, what they want. They don't know anything else. On the other said there is the problem that these professors, that theology professors are not taken seriously an more. They are completely irrelevant. The great intellectual debate in Germany is taking place without theologians present. They are not being cited in the big papers and in talk shows either, the talk shows want Catholic positions and so they invite the Bishops."

For the theologians, it is certain that themes in the Church do not appeal to young people, but here we have an entire generation always bringing up the same concern. Lutz said of this: "I think this is the conservatism of the progressives in the Catholic Church". For the psychiatrists there are two conservative milieus in the Church. The one conserves that which they call "the Catholic". "And the other is always against, but always has proposals which the people well know they won't eke through. Then one can be hardened in
conservatively in a complaining ritual, and nothing changes."

For Lutz it is clear that everyone who has signed, actually knew that celibacy won't be overthrown by the debate. "And thus that we are now thoroughly angry about this, that which can't be overthrown, things aren't going to get better. Everyone knows that. One can hardly hardly exchange more arguments in the hope that the other side will take that as a real argument and not an attack. If they looked through the Memorandum once, psychologically: then the discussion would be worked out and pummeled into the Church, which isn't very fun, then to speak with such aggression." A dialog always begins on one side. Always begins with one speaking to another person, and the more meaningfully he does it, the more respectful he does it, the more the other will have the desire to answer. So begins the dialog", concluded Lutz with certainty.

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Satan's Navy: UK Ship on Last Rescue Mission Before Scrapping

No, it's not the Black Pearl, it's not Charon's barge, it's a relatively modern ship of the Royal Navy, cruising to the aid of British nationals in Benghazi Libya. MI-6 Agent Aleistar Crowley would have been so pleased, but what would Nelson have thought? Here's the story as told by the 'American Spectator.'

[American Spectator] The present Cumberland also made the headlines when, in obedience to the diktats of political correctness, a Satanist chapel was installed to accommodate the proclivities of a Satanist crewmember. No, I am not making this up -- it is not exactly a cheerful thought that in the new, non-discriminatory Royal Navy a Satanist might get his finger on a certain red button. (By way of contrast, I toured one of the last British cruisers, HMS Tiger, some years ago. The sentence in polished brass letters on the ceremonial rum-cask: FEAR GOD; HONOUR THE QUEEN, stuck in my mind.) The phrase "What would Nelson have said?" has been used in so many headlines to stories about Naval cuts and other scandals that it has become a cliché, but in this particular case it seems a reasonable question.

H/t: Pewsitter

Father Z Poll: Most SSPX Adherents Say New Mass is Valid

The Poll is still open too:

Link, here.

Renew America Slams Pizza King, Cardinal Bevilaqua and the Exorcist

RENEW AMERICA Is taking on the old guard of the Pizza King and his court Inquisitor, Father Eutener. Remember when Father took on old neo-Conservative Hannity on Fox News to general applause? Well, anyone can play that note once or twice and get a reputation for orthodoxy, conservatism and even holiness. Unfortunately, the Renew America commentator attacks Father Eutener as not "orthodox". We're sorry to hear that, we're a little incredulous, but the commentator is spot on about the Pizza King and his Old Liberal Bishop, the unctuous and highly educated Cardinal Bevilaqua.



We'd commented earlier last month about Pizza King's retirement from Ave Maria. I guess he's starting to take a bite out of donations to Swamp Thing University which just got accreditated this year.

We're not excited about the old party line. He was hiding child abusers, he was hiding his homosexual collaborators, no doubt. Philadelphia has a strong liberal presence, that's nothing new.

Lord, O' Lord, how long must we suffer under the rule of Americanist Prelates? Here's what Howlingly Abusrd has to say from AQ. It is hard to believe he could have been unaware, and the author of the article did say people would come around and say "he's not all that bad". It's becoming increasingly difficult to defend churchmen. When you don't demonstrate that you really believe what you profess to advocate, it gets even harder, and then get children involved who are preyed upon by your homosexual friends, well.:

The dementia of the cardinal, not recognizing people, might explain
not spotting deviants and flamers at his own seminary.
And enabling a control freak with bad taste in architecture.
Part of the problem is money though, enabling someone who is obviously a kook, who no serious Catholic scholar in his or her right mind
would have submitted to, were it not for the corrupting influence of money and the false promises behind it.
It's not like it's just one demented Cardinal who doesn't recognize his attorney or mother.
You have a whole subculture of dementia and corruption with seminary professors, theologians and bioethicists making up excuses
for eugenic Jackson Labs and talking about ecumenical "dialogue" with secular humanist science dorks and nerds,
as if this will be a new Spring Time while pedophiles and deviants pose as priests in the archdiocese
and when the Cardinal actually served on a panel for the USCCB on
the "protection" of children and young people.
You can't walk through a modernist seminary and then say you were totally surprised to discover there were fruitcakes
and perverts pretending to be priests in your diocese.
Unless you're blind or suffering from dementia.
Or unless you're a convert unfamiliar with the subculture of deviants in that diocese.
The Cardinal may have a valid excuse. Alzheimer's, dementia, or whatever. That doesn't excuse the other enablers.
You simply CANNOT allow someone, even a deranged control freak,
to BUY a Catholic university. That's not how Catholic higher education
is supposed to work.
There's NO chapter on that in Newman's Idea of a University or in
Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
It was virtually unheard of until this recent era in Americanist modernism.
And despite the horrible example of certain other modernist Catholic institutions,
that idea should have been resisted and opposed by those calling themselves orthodox and conservative Catholics.
But maybe there should be an encyclical or motu proprio on what should happen when a kook or a deranged control freak seizes control of a Catholic university.
And on the procedures for how to remove such people from involvement with Catholic education.

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AVE MARIA, Florida- Following a long and painful investigation of the sexual abuse of children in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, a Grand Jury has issued a final report stating that they have no doubt that Cardinal Bevilacqua's "knowing and deliberate actions during his tenure as Archbishop also endangered thousands of children in the Philadelphia Archdiocese." This endangerment included vulnerable and poor immigrant children from the Hmong community — an alarming fact, considering Bevilacqua's experience, having served as Director of the Migration and Refugee Office in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

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Old Liberal Benedictines Continue to Die Out

“Dramatic drop in their membership”

With no new vocations in more than 20 years, Benedictine sisters in San Bernardino diocese decide to close monastery, move on

After 45 years in existence, the Benedictine sisters of Holy Spirit Monastery in Grand Terrace (near San Bernardino) have announced they are moving out of their monastery and leaving the area.

“On January 31, 2011, I received formal notice from the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Holy Spirit Monastery in Grand Terrace that they, as a religious community, had made the decision to close their Monastery in that city,” wrote San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes in a Feb. 7 letter posted on the diocesan website. “This comes after many years of faithful and devoted presence here in our Diocese of San Bernardino.”

“The sisters explained to me that the dramatic drop in their membership has left them with only six sisters at Holy Spirit Monastery, most of whom are already retired,” said Bishop Barnes’ in the letter. “This fact alone affects significantly their financial position since a Monastery relies on the income generated by the sisters’ full-time ministries. It has also been very difficult to accomplish all of the jobs required to function as an independent monastery.” 

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Youth Vandalize the Church and Urinate in Holy Water Fonts

A group of youth (13-16 years) have vandalized a church in the Archdiocese of Freiburg and among other things, destroyed the statue of St. Antonius.

Ersingen (kath.net) Youthful perpetrators have severely vandalized a Catholic church in the city of Ersingen (near Pforzheim) in the Archdiocese of Freiburg according to the "Pforzheimer Zeitung".  The perpetrators first poured out the holy water and finally urinated in the holy water fountains.  Otherwise, numerous objects in the church were destroyed.  Among other things the statue of St. Anthony was ripped from its anchoring and another figure had its head cut off.  The four youth estimated in age from 13 to 16 are being pursued by the police.

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Converting Mussulmen is Easy

Apparently Christians don't have the power anymore to be the light of the world.  The alternative to the Gospel"  Assissi-Meetings.  by Blessed Fr. Charles de Foucauld (+1916)

Blessed Charles de Foucaud

(kreuz.net) It seems that the interaction with the Mussulmen consists in first civilizing them, then to instrict them and to finally make them human beings like us.   When that's done, then their conversion will be done practically by themselves.

Because Islam can't withstand instruction.

The work here in Algeria -- as with all Mussulmen -- to be performed, consists in the work of moral uplifting:

- to bring them by all means to moral and intellectual heights.

- to grow close to them and maintain contact with them

- to bind with them in friendship

- to remove their antipathy towards us through daily and friendly interaction in conversation and change their view through the example of our lives. 

- for an actual appreciation in instruction

- to instruct these souls completely in the whole of their lives and bring them up with help in school and college, that which is learned in school and college.

- teach them by way of daily and close contact, what is learned in the family.

- to become their family.

When this result is reached, then their disposition will be massively altered and their morals improved.

The commission of the Gospel will be easily procured.

From a letter to Fr. Caron in the year 1906.

From kreuz.net...

Latin is Better than English

Germany.  The newspaper 'Deutsche Sprachwelt' is promoting at the beginning of World Mother Language Day; less English and more Latin instruction.  The destruction of linguistic diversity damages also the German language -- explained the Chief of the paper.  Latin is much better equipped than English to help learn other languages.

At kreuznet...

If Monarchy can Forward Liberalism, It'll Be Favorably Viewed in Films

Editor: I saw "God Save the Queen" on the wall the other day and saw how interwoven the punk rock rebellion of the mid-seventies and its message had become so intricately interwoven with the British Monarchy. The symbols became mutually supporting and John Lydon is suddenly a proud British Subject who "loves our Queen..."

Ah, the Irony

Haven't you people heard of post-structuralism? Haven't you people heard of the free play of signifiers and signifieds?   

Hollywood's ok with celebrating Monarchy and Nobility as long as it promotes a leftist agenda. Of course, no big surprise that The King's Speech was promoted by the lumpen-intellectuals at L'Osservatore Romano. If you're short on insight and Catholic belief, you can always make up for it by praising films that entered the limelight: Brokeback, Simpsons, or one of JP Two's favorites, Shakespeare in Love.

Here's a list of articles and sites featuring films with noble and monarchical characters that promote leftist agendas.

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Mrs. Brown More surreptitious family bashing.

Young Victoria Liberal Victoria.

Elizabeth, Cate Blanchet. Celebrating one of the most murdering Queens in English history as an Enlightenment Saint.

The English Patient, assisted suicide, pacifism, miscegenation, religious indifferentism and portraying immoral situations in an amoral light.

The Madness of King George, egalitarian non-sense.

Gahndi, with Ben Kingsley, do-gooder pacifism.

Lord of the Rings, For feminism.

Coptic Chant

Swiss Bishop Fires Seminary Rector over Disagreement on Old Mass. Swiss Bishop Goes to Congregation of Bishops.

Editor: The traditional friendly Bishop of Chur is attempting to defend his position against the counter diocese, the bureaucratic councils that control the Church tax. He's going to Rome to defend the firing of a controversial his seminary rector. According to kreuz.net, one of the flash points between the two Bishops was the Old Mass. +Huonder is a strong advocate for the Mass of All Ages.

Will the Bishop Himself Resign?

The explosion of the Chur resignation has reached the Congregation of Bishops.  There one learns: The slightest problems make Bishops who can't stop the decline.

(kreuz.net) Yesterday morning Bishop Vitus Huonder (68) of Chur directed comments to his fellow bishops, priests, deacons and pastoral assistants in an e-mail.

The letter stands in connection with the most recent resignation of the Rector of the Chur Seminary and General Vicar for the Canton of Graubünden. 

"I sense there is great sense of dismay regarding the events of the last days in the entire Diocese"  -- explained the Bishop:  "I agree with that at this point too".

There have been different levels of "injury" that have taken place in the last months which had at once resulted in dismissal.
 
Msgr Huonder maintains that the Diocesan leadership has not succeeded in giving a "picture of unity" in this situation.

The Bishop did not mince words:  "In the current hour I ask myself, what is to be done."

He has already contacted the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Francesco Canalini (74) and asked for advice.

He has even received an appointment in Rome:

"I will then have the opportunity to come to together with the Prefect of the Bishops Congregation in order to discuss the situation."

Msgr Huonder has pointed out that this is "not for the expediency" of the Chur "Old Liberal" priest council or the not more precisely "Council of Lay Female Theologettes, Lay Theologians and Deacons" to use this as an opportunity to engage in a palaver.

He wants to solicit the Roman Council in this case:

"I wanted to consult antecedently with the Congregation for Clergy about what I have undertaken in the given circumstances and will make known then about any further actions."

In conclusion he cited a word from Pope John Paul II († 2005)from his book, "Memory and Identity":

"What does forgiveness mean, if it does not call on the good which is greater than any evil."

Msgr Huonder invites everyone, "to see the good that is always and manifold and to appreciate the
the interconnectedness."

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Sex-abuse Hoax Hits Sweden

Editor: just because something happens in Sweden, doesn't mean that the same liberalism which is evident in other parts of the Church won't yield the same kinds of problems, even if they are exceedingly rare as they are in this case.  There was another report last year as Sweden joined the snowballing sex-abuse hoax with two, yes, count them two, cases. Now that number has skyrocketed to three as the forces of leftist intrigue throw their dwindling reserves and media resources into battle. Let's look at the numbers which tell a different story.

To put this into perspective, the Catholic Church in Sweden has, according to Nation Master, a total of 145 as of 2004. Back then, there were about 140,000 Catholics in Sweden.  There are 200,000 today. Imagine a corresponding increase in the number of priests and that number of three perpetrators in thirty years gets increasingly more insignificant.

Three priests, even in liberal Sweden with its age of consent at 15 and its decadent and morally permissive climate, over a period of thirty years means this is a very rare occurrence of sexual abuse among clergy.


It's undoubtedly much higher in the Swedish educational system and among mental "health" professionals.


The following headline is further proof of the malice these people bear for Catholicism.  Note that despite the fact that they could only conjure up three perpetrators, one who isn't a alive to defend himself, and another who's no longer a priest, they include ALL priests in the category of "paedophiles".  Never mind that pedophilia is even rarer than pederasty.  Pedophilia involves sex with children who haven't reached puberty, and pederasty, which involves the majority of these cases, with those who have reached sexual maturity and are pubescent.   And these same people will never discuss the issue of homosexuality, because if this scandal shines a light on anything, it should shine a light on the plague of homosexuality itself and liberalism, two things which priestly perpetrators suffer from more than anything else.


But once again, the media isn't interested in making those distinctions, it's only interested in inciting hatred for the Catholic Church.

Priests in Sweden join the ranks of "paedophiles"
   
The Catholic Church of Sweden confirms three suspected priests sexually abused children over the span of 30 years. [Wow, is that a lot?]

It is reported that the paedophile priests, one of whom is dead, sexually abused a collective of five children between 1940 and 1970, thus falling under that statute of limitation.

Stockholm Bishop Anders Arborelius said Saturday there could "be no redemption" for the three.

One priest molested two boys, another abused a girl for four years before she complained.

The third priest molested two girls, who were sisters, while in a relationship with their mother. 

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H/t: AQ

Theological Memorandum: Kasper - "Students" Contradict Cardinal Kasper

Editor: Rome is just as disappointed with the Memorandum as Cardinal Kasper, calling it, "provincial".  Really, it seems really infantile and moribund, like the ranks of Old Liberals themselves.

Theologian Hans Kessler, Eberhard Schockenhoff and Peter Walter insist: Cardinal Kasper's "Gotteskrise" serves "not only in society, rather also in the center of the Church itself".

Berlin (kath.net/KAP) In the debate surrounding the provacative Theology paper three students of the Curial Cardinal Walter Kasper have offered sharp criticisms of their former mentor.   The Casper generated "Gotteskrise" serves "not only in society but also in the center of the Church itself", it was explained by theologians Hans Kessler, Eberhard Schockendoff and Peter Walter, who published a common statement for the "Frankfurter Rundschau" on Friday.

In the Catholic Church there is a "large brewing problem, which is not solved by non-engagement and progressive silence",  so say the three Theologians. It may be hardly challenged "that the Church is in no way defined by a culture of freedom, like other social systems at least present themselves in the ideal".  From "trust in the freedom of the individual" t is only apparent so long , "as it doesn't pull out all the stops".

Kessler is an emeritus Professor for systematic Theology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt:  Schockenhoff [Moraltheologie] and Walter [Dogmatic] are professors at the University of Freiburg.

Kasper was "disappointed" by the Memorandum.

Kasper had turned against the "Mememorandum" of Catholic theologians in the middle of February, in which a list of reforms were proposed.  The Curial Cardinal had explained that the call for another inner-ecclesiastical legal culture is surely right, the past church circle is however in consequence of the divine circle does not arise in the first line of Church law.  The various questions are "the conviction of the Faith in the world of today":  in place of "superficial adjusting parameters of celibacy", requires a "radical renewal" of this belief.

In total Kasper had explained two weeks ago that he was "overly disappointed" in the Memorandum of the Theologians.  He missed in that a substantial contribation of theologians where he'd "expected more".  No sensible person seriously contests that it "makes an acerbic break necessary with the Catholic Church".

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Two German Attorneys Charge Benedict With Crimes Against Humanity in World Court

Once again invoking the rare instance of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, they have an agenda to promote.  It's the only institution left in the world which is standing against their dictatorship of relativism. 

TWO GERMAN lawyers have initiated charges against Pope Benedict XVI at the International Criminal Court, alleging crimes against humanity.

Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel, based at Marktheidenfeld in the Pope’s home state of Bavaria, last week submitted a 16,500-word document to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Dr Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Their charges concern “three worldwide crimes which until now have not been denounced . . . (as) the traditional reverence toward ‘ecclesiastical authority’ has clouded the sense of right and wrong”.

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12 Wounded During Islamist Attack on Provincial Capital in Caucusus

MOSCOW — Russian media say 12 police were wounded during an Islamist attack on a provincial capital in the volatile Caucasus region.

The Itar Tass news agency said Friday militants launched grenades on a regional security agency, a hospital and a hotel in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkariya province. No one was wounded in the attack, it said.

The Interfax agency reported 12 police officers were wounded by the militants at two traffic police stations outside Nalchik.

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Cairo: Body of a Priest Found with 22 Knife Wounds

Not only unprotected, but also actively persecuted by the military: Coptic Christians in Egypt -- Soldiers shoot monks and priests.

Dusseldorf-Cairo (kath.net/KAP)  Further attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt: The Coptic Orthodox Bishop for Germany, Anba Damian, complained this Thursday to the 'Westphalian Hoxter' of attacks by soldiers against the Anba--Bishoy-Cloister in Wadi El Natrun.  There this Wednesday a monk was shot and another was abducted. Some collaborators with the Monastery have been severely wounded, said the Bishop.

Still more, this Tuesday the body of a Coptic Priest was found with 22 knife wounds.

The "Society for Threatened People" also participated this Thursday, saying that more than a thousand Copts had demonstrated against new attacks against Monasteries.  The participants protested against the destruction of the protective fences around the Monastery by the Army, at which more Copts were severely injured.

The protests were directed otherwise against the murder of David Boutros.  The body of the priest was found on Tuesday in this home in the village of Schatb near the city of Asyut.

Boutros was, according to reports in the interim, already murdered at some time this weekend with 22 knife wounds in the neck, back and stomach.

Damian accused the Egyptian Army of not protecting the Monastery from plundering and even hindering the efforts of the Monks in defending themselves. "The unarmed Monks and workers of my home Monastery Anba-Bishoy in Wadi El Natrun were fired upon with much hate and still more anger,"  declared Damian.

According to the testimony of the Bishop the Army stopped the Monks from building a defensive wall around the Monastery, as the security forces withdrew and while a thousand prisoners were released from the jails in Wadi El Natrun.  On Wednesday the Army returned with four bulldozers and destroyed the wall again.  Just as this was happening, the soldiers fired on the Monastery with machine pistols.

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And yet there's not much "danger" to these  uprisings says Vatican "expert".

Cardinal Brings Iraqi Catholic Family into Archepiscopal Palace

Edit: Charity begins at home.

The family belonged to some 31 Iraqi Christians who were taken in by the Austrian government.

 Vienna (kath.net/PEW) "A warm welcome in this house, a warm welcome to our Land, Austria":  Cardinal Christoph Schönborn greeted an Iraqi refugee family to the Archbishop's Palace.

The family belongs to some 31 Iraqi Christians, who have been taken in by the Austrian government. They have received a positive asylum determination and have received recognized refugee status.

The Chaldean-Catholic family from Kirkuk, which will reside in the Archepiscopal Palace had been acutely threatened in Iraq, explained the Viennese Archbishop in "Kathpress".  He condemned in any avent the attack against the Church in Baghdad a few months ago in which more than 60 Mass goers lost their lives. It was therefore just and necessary that the government's decision was made to take in the Iraqi refugees.

Schönborn said:  "For years the government has essayed to be active in this direction.  Till then I have kept my ears to the ground and listened intentively.  Now things have finally come to pass and for that I'm very thankful."

The Church has always insisted upon assisting the refugees with their plight.  The Cardinal stressed that the families were encouraged in this to live in Austria and even learn German, so that they at least soon land on their own feet.

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Libya's 'crown prince' makes appeal - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Libya's 'crown prince' makes appeal - Africa - Al Jazeera English

+Hubbard Gushes over Pro-Homosexual Cuomo: Vatican admonishes Cuomo over communion | WIVB.com

Father Z makes an apt comparison from I, Claudius, here.

Albany's +Hubbard is one of the worst Bishops in the Church, possibly even more evil than Bishop Cawcutt.   +Hubbard is a hard core, homosexual enabling, negligent, liberation theology advocating promoter of collectivism and, now as always, public wickedness:

[WIVB] The Vatican was questioned after the governor recently received communion at a mass in Albany. Bishop Howard Hubbard never challenged him to reform. He issued a statement, saying it's unfair and imprudent "to make a pastoral judgment about a particular situation without knowing all the facts." However, local Catholics see both sides.

Earl Newman said, "I think Catholics around the world listen to the pope. He carries a lot of weight. And if the governor is living in sin, he should be condemned."

 +Hubbard goes on to attack those finding fault with Cuomo's public scandal mongering, asserting that his detractors have dirty minds, but perhaps the biggest reason +Hubbard defends Cuomo is that he has been a supporter of the legitimization of sodomy.

Vatican admonishes Cuomo over communion | WIVB.com

Hubbard Defends Cuomo

Vatican "Expert" on Islam Sees New Springtime in Middle East

This is a good indicator that this latest uprising isn't a good thing.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/vatican-advisor-islam-hails-springtime-arab-world