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The Reality of Pope Benedict

April 15, 2008 - 12:55 am - by Elizabeth Scalia
Akatsukami
2008-04-15 02:54:37

Western progressives cannot accept that they have marginalized themselves through cowardice, moral and physical, and a studied refusal to reproduce. Benedict’s constituency, as it were (not that the Roman Catholic church is or should be a democratic institution) is the genuinely poor and oppressed Christians of Africa, where the faith takes on a fervency almost Penecostal in its intensity.