[JNB]

I am reading this as 5 liberals, because Abp Antonelli of Florence was described as orthodox on doctrine. As for the "social justice" group of cardinals, many seem fairly solid, and Mr Allen judged them on their foreign policy rather than doctrinal views. On foreign policy, even the SSPX by US standards is pretty liberal(they opposed the war in Iraq as well).

[dangus]

Well, here's where we may disagree:

Social Justice has, in my experience, become a code-word for communist. Sorry, I know that SOUNDS terrible, and I hate saying it, because I'm aware of what social justice USED to mean, but I have scarcely heard that phrase uttered outside of socialist agitprop.

In any parish I've ver been associated with (and we're talking dozens in 6 states), the Social Justice committee was 100% communist, except my dear, old, recently-Democrat Dad who for about two years tried to teach teach them things as the concept of "spiritual charity." The dear-old former union organizer is now a die-hard Republican. I'd like to think I helped win him over, (I know his moral horror at Clinton helped) but I think he had an experience similar to Reagen's:

"They were, of course, all communists."