Hmm.I suppose communism, by the same logic, is also above reproach. It advocates freedom for workers, plans to renumerate them heavily, and claims to stand for the poor and underprivileged. What sort of cruel monster could be against such a noble venture?
It is, to a Christian, the perculiar trait of the Jesuit zealot to marry "good works" and killing that perhaps is at the root of most criticisms. Communists seem to see this relationship far more clearly when they comment on an earlier Catholic 'liberation' program (known as the Crusades) or a precurser to the more modern Communist system of ideological purity enforcement (known as the Inquisition). Neither policies, of course, bothered to obtain the approval of the Left intelligensia, which seems to be at the root of all this approbation in any case.
I suppose if Christ had come off the cross, sword in hand, and done some serious liberation (like the Sadduccees had been waiting so long for), the connection might be a bit clearer in my mind. Even if he had stored some weapons for Barrabas, or something similar ... (Jennifer Casolo, though hardly virtuous, doesn't quite measure up to Ms. Magdelaine) As it stands, however, I think the late Archbishop, like that old Russian Grand Inquisitor, or ol' Scratch (the original Red) back in the day, he seems to be preaching an unsold product. Sorry.
The "Doc" (still buffooning with the expected pomposity, and all that ...)
