Be Not Afraid

RealClearPolitics ^ | April 3, 2005 | Lawrence Kudlow

[TASMANIANRED]

Thats a good one, Has the sun in his face.

I was thinking more along when he first became pope.

[lizol]

[Aquinasfan]

John Paul II tells us to "be not afraid" in pursuing the life of faith.

I'm so glad that the pope chose this as a theme of his papacy. It's timeless and timely. It's something I constantly try to remind myself of.

[Aquinasfan]

he "missed the mark" on liberation theology.

Barf. I was thumbing through Malachi Martin's "Jesuits" the other day. He related the story of one of the pope's visits to South or Central America in the early '80s. The pope was greeted by a priest who wasn't a Marxist and the pope said, "it's nice to know that not all of you are Marxists!"

Liberation theology is now discredited and waning thanks to the pope.

[jpl]

No one can find a person who has bad word to say of him.

Then I guess you didn't read Christopher Hitchens' piece on slate.com. Hitchens gave it to him pretty good on the whole pedophile Priest scandal.

[goldstategop]

The Holy Father made some all too human mistakes. No mortal's completely free of sin, not even the Vicar Of Christ. But unless its of a mortal nature, even the Pope should receive God's mercy. And I would not want to speak ill of the dead.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[jpl]

I totally agree. My personal opinion is that the Pope was quite ill for at least the last couple of years and that most of the decisions were probably being made behind the scenes by others in the Vatican and that he can't really be held personally responsible.

I do hope that whoever ends up becoming the new Pontiff will take a much different tack towards handling corruption within the Church hierarchy though. I think that covering up for guys like Bernard Law and his underlings seriously weakens the Church's moral authority.

[Liz]

Things that make conservatives feel good.

[Liz]

The buzz for a very long time was that Larry Kudlow was influenced in his conversion to Catholicism by William F Buckley who took Larry under his wing during some very dark days when Larry was going through the aftermath of a devastating divorce.

[Barnacle]

What a great shot. Imagine what was being said between those two men.

[dfwgator]

I wouldn't be surprised if they are having a nice conversation right now.

[reformjoy]

LOVE is the Light of Christ

[TASMANIANRED]

Thank you.

Two fine men straight tall and vital.

They molded history. They brought freedom to the oppressed.

Heaven is blessed to have them, and we were graced to have them for a while.