[sinkspur]

I'd still be interested in a response to #28, if it isn't too much trouble.

Rommel did what he felt he had to do. I agree with it, but that was a different time.

I'm really surprised at your reaction. O'Malley's been in office three days, and you expect a man who's never been fire-and-brimstone to suddenly turn fire-and-brimstone.

O'Malley and I are in the same zip code, age-wise. Perhaps when you mellow, you'll gain the perspective he has.

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Dear sinkspur,

Each one has his gifts.

"I'm really surprised at your reaction. O'Malley's been in office three days, and you expect a man who's never been fire-and-brimstone to suddenly turn fire-and-brimstone."

That isn't what the advance PR said. He was said to have called pro-abort pols in Florida (or perhaps his previous See in Massachusetts) "KKK without the sheets".

That's not fire and brimstone? I'd hate to see what is. He had a reputation as a straight-shooter, someone who doesn't beat around the bushes. Perhaps the advance PR was misleading. I don't know.

But I know that his reputation isn't similar to that of, say, Cardinal McCarrick. Cardinal McCarrick is a schmoozer. He's a politician, himself. That's fine. That's who and what he is.

Each one has his gifts. The Church needs all these gifts. There must be bishops who can schmooze. There must be bishops who can preach fire and brimstone.

There must be hammers. And there must be anvils.

From what I can see, we have a sufficient number of schmoozers and politicos. We need a few more folks like Bishop Bruskewitz, who excommunicates first, and asks questions later.

All right, that's an exaggeration. But it felt good to write it. ;-)


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[sitetest]

Dear sinskpur,

"O'Malley and I are in the same zip code, age-wise. Perhaps when you mellow, you'll gain the perspective he has."

LOL. I have mellowed. You shoulda seen me when I was a kid.


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