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...Benedict Arnold believed in the right of Great Britain to control its lawful colony. He also, at one point, believed in the right of the colonists to secede from the British empire, given its tyrannical taxation and creepy obsession with tea, biscuits, and slaves...
Ergo, Harvard could be embodied by Benjamin Franklin, Yale could be embodied by King George, making you our “friend” Benedict. (I’d call your mother soon. You’ve not long for this world.) You think it doesn’t matter? Sure, the biscuits don’t matter—but the tea and the artificially constructed closed-market economy? Your backing of Yale supports the slave trade. Please don’t ever write in again...
...gays-in-the-priesthood saga was not the first troublesome episode of poorly managed information flows from the Curia since Benedict took over. Most notably, a leaked version of the Vatican's reaction to the July 7 terror attacks in London erroneously included the Pope using the highly charged phrase "anti-Christian" to describe the bombing. Several sources have traced the incorrect draft to Secretary of State Angelo Sodano's office. Navarro-Valls, who reportedly is at odds with Sodano, is still running the press office, but is less and less visible. Meanwhile, Benedict himself doesn't seem particularly preoccupied...
...Seven months into Benedict XVI's papacy, however, some Vatican watchers have noticed that the Vatican PR machine is not exactly purring along. Tuesday's official release of the Vatican's long-awaited document reinforcing a ban on gays from the priesthood concludes a messy chapter on how not to do damage control...
...Oval Office before meetings with the national commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jim Mueller, a Vietnam veteran from Missouri, and with the Archbishop of Washington, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, who participated last April in the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the 265th Pope, Benedict XVI. Bush will also make remarks on World AIDS Day; light the national Christmas tree during the ?Pageant of Peace? on the Ellipse on Thursday; and attend the Kennedy Center Honors Gala next Sunday...