900,000 people show up for his closing Mass and the media shows 10-15 seconds!

Viva Il Papa!

Wow, you know what, Ed, you're right... I don't know... *sigh* I guess if we all just look at the bigger picture we can see a little bit of good in everything. And, if you think about it, after all, we're all just saying the same thing in different ways...
[Cue "We are the World" background music]
As a matter of fact, since I've allowed all these labels of "liberal" and "conservative" to blind my view of what none of us should forget in the discussion of faith - plain old charity - perhaps I've been missing out on some truly good ideas from National Catholic Reporter with lots and lots of... merits. I'm going to log on to their website right now and read more articles with an open mind to all the merits they may hold. And, God willing, at the end of the day, I'll be a much more balanced and practical Catholic ... a little more grounded in reality - not to mention less judgemental of my fellow sisters and brothers. Thanks, Ed...

The more I see, hear and read of B16, the more I like him. I think history will prove him to be even greater than JPII.
I'm reminded of an edition of Catholic Answers from it's very early days, when Fr. Graeham Leonard was the guest, the former Anglican bishop of London, now a Catholic priest, who said that then Cardinal Ratzinger was the most compassionate man he had ever met. So much for God's rotweiller.

Hicardo, you miss the point, JA's writing has been excellent, however incongruous with NCREP it might be. Jimmy linked to JA (golly, even NOR news links to NCR from time to time!). Evaluate stuff on the merits, not on the man (or his employer).

C'mon, Jimmy... What's with all these links lately to National Catholic Reporter?

David B: nah, I don't mind.....son.

Rock on, Papa B.!

Ed,
I hope you don't mind me calling you brother, though, from the photo on your website, your old enough to be my uncle.
but now I've told everyone my age.

Ed,
AMEN, brother!

Jimmy: We can all find John Allen's stories easily enough. What I want to know is what Jimmy Akin thinks about John Allen's stories.