The Holy See does not have bad relations with Iran. Not great ones. But not bad ones, either. In fact, Iran has had an arrangement in place for several years whereby the Vatican would mediate in any dispute with the United States should that matter ever really come to a head.
Why risk that, which has the potential to save far more lives if it ever needed to be put into operation, and why risk the safety of Catholics on the ground (who, again, do not have it easy, but do not have it too hard, either), to save the life of one man who comes out of the rather clod-hopping American-backed circles that do in fact make the lives of the ancient indigenous Christians in the Middle East very difficult indeed, and who probably believes the Papacy to be the Antichrist?
As, in fact, it must be. Unless all of its claims about itself are true in full. So, which is it? Are the Papal Claims true in full? Or is the Papacy the Antichrist? It must be one or the other.
Oh, and if this sort of thing is routine in Iran, or at least quite common there, then how come this case is such a big story?
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Thompson is holding the Mossad line of course. Does he know want to nuke the Vatican as well as Iran? If his paymasters tell him to write that, he will.
ReplyDeleteWhen do we get a Voice of Catholic Orthodoxy who is not in the pay of one of the Church's enemy states? When do we get one who believes in God instead of just having spotted a journalistic niche and a chance to pick up men?
He is not "the Voice of Catholic Orthodoxy". He thinks he is, but he isn't. I'm not sure who, if anyone, currently is. But I know that he isn't.
ReplyDeleteWe got rid of the Blairites, took back the conversation for people who believe in social democracy, always open to social conservatism and patriotism and often signed up to them.
ReplyDeleteWho will do the same for the Church in general and the trad perspective in particular? Take it back for people who emphasise social teaching as much as pro-life, really live the sexual ethic, and stand up for persecuted Christians in the Holy Land or Hindutva as much as in Muslim or Communist countries?
Take it back from whom?
ReplyDeleteWith the success of the broadly paleocon RightMinds, his neocon days running Telegraph Blogs are by all accounts coming to an end. Part of the general return of the vehicles of Toryism to Toryism. And that after the return of the Catholic Herald to Catholicism got rid of him, too. As we may say in tribute to David Croft, "Oh dear, how sad, never mind."
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.
ReplyDeleteMabel is the tolertated Uncle Tom, willing to drone on about the Latin Mass and what not.
ReplyDeleteBut safely neoliberal econonically and safely neoconservative internationally, as on this issue. Plus not only a practitioner of male homosexual activity but signed up to the view that it constitutes a "gay" identity.
Whereas your full strength Catholicism is utterly unpalatable to them. I hope you are very proud of that.
Between them, he and The Tablet keep the real thing off the mainstream agenda in this country. But their days are numbered.
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