Benny Blows Off Beantown2007-11-14 00:39:11
If I were a Catholic in the Boston archdiocese right about now, I’d be pretty damn furious over the fact that Pope Benedict XVI is going to visit Washington and New York, but isn’t going to stop over at the town which is the home of Red Sox Nation (and also, unfortunately, the epicenter of this country’s Catholic priest abuse scandal, as noted here).(And by the way, we all know that the scandal occurred because of Boston’s “culture of liberalism,” which must be true because one of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s new Op-Ed columnists said it was so here, from the confines of PA of course as opposed to acting like a man and going to that city to say it personally.)This Wikipedia article tells us about one of the many infuriating aspects of the scandal…In May 2001, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and later elected Pope Benedict XVI on the death of his predecessor, sent a letter[10] to all Catholic Bishops declaring that the