You Freepers should always believe whatever those of us in the mainstream media report about Christianity in general and the pope in particular ... especially what you see in the editorial pages of the New York Times ... because we are totally unbiased and we never get our facts wrong.
Zakeet, You have nicely summed up what I have spent so many long Saturdays arguing here on this beloved Free Republic site.
The monkey says it all, down to his glassy-eyed stare, or is it steely-eyed?
Bill Donahue has not sold out from any awareness I have. Pope Francis is making it difficult for us to defend him and the Church by speaking at all to these people, but so what.
The original statement is the only document to read.