Ping!
A cleric’s political positions, as C.S. Lewis said, tell one only which newspapers are taken at the rectory.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
The archbishop later added that he hopes Hillary maintains her lead through Super Tuesday.
"The sermon was calling for action in a certain direction," the archbishop said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service. "This is where Christ was calling on all his followers to get up and do something to get their hands dirty, protect the poor, heal the sick, release the prisoners -- including those in Guantanamo Bay, and I will tell him that."
Archbishop Chacour Another Marxist ArchBishop !
Sounds like someone on the advance team needs to be fired, and the invite rescinded.
Yuk.
Let’s see, the Melkite-Rite Church in Jerusalem . . . now why does THAT ring a bell?
Oh yes! Wasn’t this present mitred braintrust’s predecessor one Archbishop Hilarion Cappucci . . . one time gun-runner for the PLO, banished to a monastery by Paul VI (who under that condition had negotiated his release from Israeli custody), and didn’t we last see him accompanying that outstanding Chaldean Rite Catholic, Tariq Azziz, to Assisi, after an audience with John Paul II just before the Iraq War began?
Glorious history, apparently, of Archbishops whose kamalavkas aren’t pinned on too tight.
As they say, “When a deacon loses his voice, they make him a priest. And when a priest loses his mind, they make him a bishop.”
Someone should cue Bush into the history of the Melkites in Jerusalem so he can ask, “And how is Archbishop Cappucci’s study of the Beatitudes and International Law coming along?”
Bush would never say this (he’s too respectful), but it would be great if he did:
“You know, you’re right bishop. After all, who are these Iraqis and Afghans to us? Why should we care that they are oppressed, brutalized and starved. Most Americans couldn’t even find those countries on a map. It was ridiculous for us to spend so much money and risk the lives of so many of our young men and women to liberate from oppression a bunch of nameless and faceless peasants on the other side of the world. Thanks to you I now understand that Jesus would prefer that we had just cut a deal with Hussein so that he would officially oppose al-qaeda, and we would ignore the atrocities he commits against his own people and his neighbors. How could I, as a born-again Christian who spends a lot of time in prayer and reading the Scriptures, and who regularly consults with clergy, possibly have missed the obvious Christ-centered policy of collude and ignore. From now on, America, blessed to be the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world, will no longer lift a finger to stop oppression anywhere in the world. Instead, we will just play games with despots and pontificate at the UN, because those approaches work so much better.”