From today's Washington Post and E.J. Dionne
When President Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI tomorrow, there will be no right-wing Catholic demonstrators upbraiding the pontiff, as they did Notre Dame earlier this year, for conferring the church's legitimacy upon this liberal politician.
In fact, whether he is the beneficiary of providence or merely good luck, Obama will have his audience with Benedict just three days after the release of a papal encyclical on social justice that places the pope well to Obama's left on economics. What a delightful surprise it would be for a pope to tell our president that on some matters, he's just too conservative.
It seems that this Pope is indeed going to be critical of the Obama administration but just not in the manner that most people would expect.
To read the Pope's new encyclical on social justice click here
1 comment:
I just linked to this on my facebook page, in a comment on something else I posted.
This is great!
Off to my Paulist retreat at Lake Geo today. Hope staycation has been great.
Fran
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