[american colleen]

Just thinking... has any other major Cardinal given as hard hitting and Catholic speech as Arinze did? And at arguably the biggest name Catholic college in the USA, too.

Arinze has either been applauded or excoriated for this speech - but not excoriated as much as he might have been if he was white, I think. Put Bruskewicz or maybe Egan in this situation and given the same speech in the same school, I think the outcry would have been much larger.

[Aquinasfan]

Just thinking... has any other major Cardinal given as hard hitting and Catholic speech as Arinze did?

It's sad that this speech has to be characterized as "hard hitting" when it's unremarkable, orthodox, Catholic doctrine.