QUOTE OF THE DAY

“From the perspective of society, the tendency to ‘privatize’ the moral dimension, so common to America with its slogan ‘separation of church and state,’ can potentially have disastrous consequences.” – Archbishop William J. Levada, just appointed to be pope Benedict XVI’s guardian of orthodoxy. Even back in 1995, Levada was singling out one political party, the Democrats, for censure. And, for Levada, church-state separation is now merely a “slogan,” not a fundamental principle of a free society? Another sign of where Benedict is going.