I was most interested in the reaction to someone shouting out LEPANTO!! Rocco doesn't seem to express much of a position either way, though - other than saying that it was a "watershed moment" in Christian/Moslem relations. So what?? Is he saying that he didn't like it, or that he did like it?? A generalization for those who don't know: if you liked the shouted exclamation then you are a conservative, and if you disliked it, you are a liberal. Rocco tends to lean left in all his writings, so I assume he did not approve. But who knows?? I could be wrong.
I too dislike Rocco's "wink wink, nudge nudge" style of writing. He talks about a lot of inside politics from within the Church, but if you don't already know what he is talking about, you are lost (which is where I frequently wind up!!). I wish he would take the time to explain what it all means, in addition to just making obscure comments about things. His inside info is supposedly very good, and I have read in other places that many within the Catholic Church read his blog everyday (and find out things there before they hear it anywhere else, even though they are church "insiders" themselves).
However, I find his blog off-putting because it sometimes contains sanctimonious leftism, and because he seems to write for "insiders" only, and does it in a way the keeps outserds outside. If he is writing for us poor common folk, I don't know why he doesn't explain himself more. That makes him appear to be not only a sanctimonious left-wing Catholic, but an ELITIST sanctimonious left-wing Catholic!!
But that's just me.
And if you think shouting things out at public figures, hoping to make the news, is Tacky, then you might be a Redneck Evangelical Catholic Church Lady. (Please bring a covered dish to the next meeting.)
Great summary of this blogger - sometimes there's an interesting piece of information, but it's hard to winkle it out from the in-crowd rambling.