Any criticism, bad poll number, tough question, etc. will be greeted with a charge of racism.

Presuming any criticism, bad poll number, tough question, etc. is permitted during The One's reign. 

Love the name, by the way - Muad Dib

Greeley's gone past the deep end. The Catholic church wants to align itself with the poor, and properly so, but too many within the clergy interpret that to mean adopting the secular political attitudes of inner-city minorities. It's the cheapest and quickest way to get approval from the poor. You become especially popular if you rant against the rich and powerful, subtly implying that the reason your parishioners are poor is because someone is keeping them down.  

It is always a revealing sign when a priest (Greeley, Pfleger) who's responsible for teaching about sin and forgiveness, vents rage and indignation against abstract villains. Trust me, good priests with true courage aren't the activists who can get headlines. The courageous ones are the priests who can look individuals in the eye, person to person, and call them to confront their own sinfulness, even while admitting their own sinfulness. Ranting against abstract devils is easy. Confronting sinfulness square in the face is true courage. 

Religious leaders should be able to do both. They should be able to confront sinfulness and preach forgiveness for both individuals and society as a whole. And that's the sign of credibility: can you confront sin and promote forgiveness wherever you find it, or only when it makes you popular? You know it's cheap when the priest is a pushover with individuals, but he rushes to the pulpit to shriek rage against society.

The "kill him" was directed at the mention of Ayers.

You don't think there is any booing at Obama rallies when John McCain is mentioned?

I think I'd boo when Obama is mentioned if I were at a McCain rally. 

I can understand how Obama is so sidled up to a domestic terrorist whose ticket to unrepentent redemption is that he was less successful than Timothy McVeigh.  Political expedience.

Obama has chosen his friends wisely, I'll give him that.  And those friends have an understanding with him that he must publicly distance himself from them to advance the cause.

Undeniably Brilliant.

Underdog & Pitbull 08

So they boo Obama's name. Some nut shouted "kill him," or maybe it was "kill 'em," you think? Nah, you don't, because that's shouted at high-school football games, and can't be spun to show "hatred" and "racism."

Obama's folks boo McCain's name at rallies. Is that "disturbing?" Sure, Obama made a token "don't do that" recently. Once, that is, he realized that the accusations against McCain backers applied more to his backers by a factor of about 10.

There's no racism or hatred at the Republican rallies. Anyone who buys that is just parrotting talking points. The hateful generalizations are all coming from the left, directed at McCain and even more so at Palin.

Truth. Not "my" truth. Not "our" truth. Just truth.

"...the younger priests are much more orthodox to the Faith."

I have noticed that also. We are also getting far more ordinations per year than, say, ten years ago, in our diocese. Many, most probably, have had far more real life experience in the work place than the previous generation.

In the last five years of ordinations in the diocese, I can think of one engineer, two accountants, several served in the military (one was a Navy SEAL), a couple of former high school teachers, one physician. And others. They are all very high quality people, centered, very smart, well grounded in Scripture and theology, etc. All absolutely loyal to the Magisterium.

I like this trend.

A sad commentary is that Murtha can say stuff like that and still be re-elected for as long as he deigns to "serve" those racists.