Hitchens makes the key point:
What makes the present case so alarming is that concessions are being made to Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites, and that this is not a departure from "original intent" Catholicism but rather part of a return to traditional and old-established preachments.
This was a man who ventriloquized John Paul II’s blessing of Mel Gibson’s piece of pornography, remember. I don’t think that was an accident.
The Dish 