And yeah, Benedict was probably not being diplomatic. I normally give Catholics a pass on being Christmas and Easter Christians, but I’ll bring it up in response to Benedict’s new “dialogue.”
and that is the thing of all this, the only way that this will turn out is a mutual trading of slights and veiled insults among Christians in America at least.
Granted, that will make people “choose a side” and know where they stand one way or another, but the cost seems to me to be very high indeed.
Who wants to be called “Mackeral Snapper”
Who wants to called “Not a true church”
And that is the folly of this.