[NYer]

On this website, on the Vatican at the vigil of the U.S. elections:

> Bush-Kerry: For the Vatican, the Odds Are Even (10.26.2004)

On the dispute about the Catholic candidate John F. Kerry:

> The Kerry Affair: What Ratzinger Wanted from the American Bishops (7.3.2004)

> Ratzinger-Kerry, Act II. The Well-Tempered Controversy (13.7.2004)

On the convergence of American Catholics and evangelical Protestants:

> Bush Brought a Gift for the Pope: The Alliance Between Catholics and Evangelicals (6.7.2004)

On a book by Vittorio E. Parsi, professor of geopolitics and a trusted consultant for Cardinal Camillo Ruini:

> A Reminder for the Vatican: There’s No Way Out of Alliance with America (10.27.2003)

On the Catholic American “theocons,” among whom is Cardinal Avery Dulles:

> New Theologies: The Dawning of the Theoconservative Era in the United States (10.6.2003)

On the Vatican’s foreign policy and the first Bush administration:

> With the Pope or with Bush? “Studi Cattolici” Stands with Both (7.29.2003)

On Bush’s religious beliefs and the criticisms of him made by European Catholic intellectuals:

> “War Diary, January-April, 2003.” Author: Pietro De Marco (4.18.2003)

> Bush & God: A Puzzle for the Church in Europe (4.8.2003)

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[NYer]

even the Amish brought their buggies all the way to the ballot box

The Bush rally in Lancaster

"For decades, the roughly 40,000 Amish of Pennsylvania have rarely voted.

When they did, they were overwhelmingly Republicans. Members of a reserved, deeply Christian subculture - still speaking the German dialect of their ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s - they strive to stay apart from modern society."
Why the Amish are wheeling out the vote

Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[NYer]

Think you'll enjoy this one!

[Right Wing Professor]

The author gets it.

[trashcanbred]

Argh!! I live in a Blue State and I think this is crap. Bush won because Kerry is a fraud. Kerry is a wimp. Kerry is a flip flopper. Kerry is a stinking socialist.

Bush sticks to the plan. Bush doesn't pander to the Media and the Elites of Europe. Bush puts capitalism and the economy and the safety of our country first.

I am sure that the morality vote played a key issue with many people but to play this as the only single most important reason why he won is delusional.

Am I wrong?

[nuffsenuff]

That Italian guy figured out America.

Isn't it odd that liberals who've lived here their entire lives haven't?

[don-o]

bump 4 later

[McGavin999]

I really do wish more europeans could find out about the real America. They all have such weird stereotypes about who and what we are.

There is something missing in europe, perhaps they could find it by visiting red America.

[CasearianDaoist]

A nice article - very Italian, in the best sense of the world.

BTW, if you want to read an Italian writer that true understands America, read the late Lugi Barzini,

In all of this one is struck, however, by the deep ignorance of America by the EUros. The harking back to archetypes from domestic socialist archetypes of the 1930 - the cracker, the hobo - shows a profoundly distorted view of America, and is quite nettlesome. Are they aware that between the two of them OHI and Penn, boast 4 of the best symphonic orchestra in the world, the Wharton school and world class research Univeristies, universities the like of which exist nowhere in Europe? Do they Understand that, excluding the Louvre, Texas has better museums than France (and better Universities to boot?)