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...fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart had the good grace to bawl on television and beat his breast and otherwise oblige the audience with the theatrics of repentance. Last week the Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston, did ask several questions that it admitted are "out there in the minds of Catholics"--an interesting...
...fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart had the good grace to bawl on television and beat his breast and otherwise oblige the audience with the theatrics of repentance. Last week the Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston, did ask several questions that it admitted are "out there in the minds of Catholics"--an interesting...
...PUBLISHER: Mr. Clinton, we were not born yesterday. You have displayed a genius for the presidential imitation of Jimmy Swaggart, the sincerity-dripping prayer-breakfast public pseudo-confession, which is a variation on your brilliant "we've-had-trouble-in-our-marriage-and-leave-it-at-that" formula that got you and Mrs. Clinton through the Gennifer Flowers episode just before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. You know how to tell a story, or seem to tell a story, while skating away from the dirty details, and making it all seem - blink, blink - like a sort of dream...
...PENITENT] JIMMY SWAGGART...
Still, a nagging, primal suspicion lingers: What if the man is simply weak? A bumbler? Incapable of running a tight ship? It's a fear that Clinton's Swaggart act doesn't alleviate--in fact, for some guys, it makes it worse. "He's wimping out," the sailor sighs after hearing about yet another Clinton apology. "I can't stand to watch it. A President wimping...