Obama Meets the Pope: The Pope Meets Obama

A writer for the Catholic journal America quotes a correspondent for a U.S. publication who covers the Vatican as saying that all the American monsignors there are "Bush-loving, Fox-watching Republicans," but that all the Italian monsignori are ga-ga for Barack Obama. The wing-nut faction in the U.S. Catholic Church badly overplayed their hand in the run-up to Obama's May speech at Notre Dame and will pay the price for it. That price is a descent into irrelevance as the world, their country, and their church change before their very eyes and they are powerless to do anything but be stupid witnesses. Barack Obama is not Catholic but he is, to my mind, a better Catholic than this whole lot of churchist reactionaries.