[maryz]

I read this in the print edition today -- I would have posted it but luckily searched first. My favorite from the piece:

We don't expect the secularists who dominate our intelligentsia ever to understand how a man rooted in orthodox Christianity could ever reconcile himself with modernity, much less establish himself on the vanguard of world history. But many years ago, when the same question was put to France's Cardinal Lustiger by a reporter, he gave the answer. "You're confusing a modern man with an American liberal," the cardinal replied. It was a confusion that Pope John Paul II, may he rest in peace, never made.

[Dumb_Ox]

Am I the only one who sees an adolescent bull masturbation cartoon below this article? That really doesn't fit. I hit the abuse button, which I have never done before, and sent the following off to the moderator.

Whoever is putting up those donation cartoons has one of a grinning bull standing in a line of cows being milked by the farmer. Jokes about bull masturbation are puerile anyway, and are even anathema to most forms of traditional conservatism. But they really don't belong a thread about the pope, whose theology outlined just how screwed up onanism really is. If I want jokes about masturbation, there are plenty of other places on the internet I may go.