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| George Weigel |
I cannot take this pretentious piece of tripe seriously. I just can't.
Before I go on, let me say that Robert George, George Weigel and many of the others on the list have done much great work for the Catholic faith.
But this is laughable.
It starts with the very title--"An Appeal to Our Fellow Catholics and to all men and women of good will."
What, are they all wearing 18th century wigs or something?
Then there is a bit of blah blah.
And finally the names and titles--Senior Fellow of This, Chair of That, Founder of This, Director of That, Distinguished Blithery Blathery Senior Fellow of the Blathery Blithery School of Blither Blather at Barsoom University. And so on.
It makes you feel sorry for the one guy who simply called himself an Interim Editor.
It is, of course, an anti-Trump joint.
"Vulgar...oafish...shockingly ignorant...demagogic..."
Well, excuse me, but there's another fellow who has actually been in, shall we say, power for the last three years who easily satisfies all of these referents, and who has been doing far more real damage, at least to the things Catholics care about, than Trump the candidate or even Trump the president ever could.
Where have they been on that one?
Clinging to their endowed chairs, I think.
I don't have information on all of them but I know George and Weigel have been doing precisely that. In some instances they have been defenders, enablers and collaborators with that demagogue. And I'm talking about doing it way past the point where such conduct is reasonable or excusable.
Well, I have a family to feed too. So I partly understand. Nevertheless (in their words) I urge George, Weigel and the rest to consider the future of our Church and reject the project of the current occupant of the Chair of St. Peter. Or, to put it another way,
Man up.
