Shorter George Weigel
John Schwenkler July 7th, 2009
The only parts of the Pope’s new encyclical that really matter are the ones that line up neatly with the Republican Party’s political agenda; all the rest is incomprehensible and quite possibly stupid.
Update: Freddy has a wonderfully nuanced discussion of Caritas in Veritate up on the main blog.
Update 2: This is truly brilliant.
Filed under: economics, politics, religion
About what I would expect from the Republican wing of the US Church. He also listened intently to John Paul the Great in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
‘it may mean something naive or dumb’…. And then Weigel says, ultimately, that Benedict is a silly old man who’s just trying to make everyone happy. Huh.
[...] Weigel’s cursory slice-and-dice of Caritas is generating quite the firestorm. His approach has taken a number of people aback — even those (myself included) more often [...]