L’Osservatore Romano… what the…?!?

Many…many.. of you are asking me via e-mail what one earth is wrong with L’Osservatore Romano.

The Vatican’s newspaper published a decidedly dopey article on the visit of President Obama to Notre Dame.

The singularly grossest aspect of the decidedly dopey article was the fact that it did not mention, at all, the 70+ who made statements against the decision to honor this aggressively pro-abortion politician.

That is pretty insulting, actually.

So, to give a brief answer to the questions I am getting, leaving deeper analysis to a another day, I think that one thing best explains what is going on.

Effects have to be proportioned to their causes. 

{slap forehead HERE}

Who else could be it be but the Vatican’s Secretariat of State?

Think about it.  What could produce such a dopey article if not for the section of the Secretariat of State involved with the relations with states?

Leaving aside the personal political tendencies of many who work up there, the President is scheduled to go to Rome in, … what is it, … July?

The diplomat elements in the Secretariat of State probably don’t want anything to spoil the planning.

Ta da! 

Cause and effect.

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