Posted
5:15 PM
by Gene
'Such a Cute Pope'We aren't one of those face-scrunching church-'n'-staters, but we wonder if
Dubya and the Pope didn't embrace a little too -- tight. Then again, he is a Re -- Catholic, and Catholics are a huge constituency, and lots of Catholics are Republicans, so we do understand the touchy-feely.
On the other hand we wonder if making His Holiness into Jes' Folks -- hugging him on the shoulder like a long lost relative, singing "Happy Birthday" to him -- doesn't diminish the man, and his mission. Yes, it is all well-meaning and neighborly. But if the Pope is ordinary, so must be the Church. And the Church has given too much evidence of being
very ordinary lately.