EMAIL OF THE DAY

“I have to say, in all honesty, that I thought you were being a little over-the-top in your fear and loathing of the new Pope. While I felt a lot of it was justified-I’ve had a low opinion of Ratz ever since he torpedoed folks like my former seminary professor in moral theology at SMU, Charles Curran, and bombed the liberation theology movement and more-I was willing to allow him a grace period. I thought perhaps he would “grow into the office,” not unlike some Presidents and Prime Ministers do. And I was sucked in by all the recasting of him as such a humble and tolerant guy. But hey-you had it right. Again. I’m just sick over the purge at America, but I find myself sickened a lot these days by the way the “right thinking” Christians of the world want to control everything and everybody, worst of all, what everybody thinks and reads and writes. Anyway, it’s reassuring to have truth tellers with wide audiences like you out there. Keep up the gutsy journalism, Andrew. And come to Dallas and see us some time.”