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  • Victor Davis Hanson : Pope Must Reach With Both Arms to Keep West From Slipping Away

    04/14/2005 9:02:52 AM PDT · by quidnunc · 29 replies · 1,162+ views
    The San Jose [CA] Mercury News ^ | April 14, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson
    During the papal interregnum, divided Catholics await the new Holy Father to guide them in their third millennium, in which clergy in Roman-era headdresses send news releases via e-mail. Can conservatives save the church by sticking to 20 decades of received tradition? Or will liberals energize an embattled global parish only by ending priestly celibacy or seeing condoms as a tool in stopping AIDS? Yet the new pontiff, both his personality and ideas, will affect even those of us who are not Catholics. The pope is not a CEO who serves at the pleasure of his board. Nor like a...