The pope’s US visit: Media, White House, Congress embrace spokesman for religious obscurantism
Monday, April 21st, 2008It is a measure of the profound decay of American democracy that when the president of the United States welcomed the Roman Catholic pontiff to Washington last week, a major concern was that the representative of a 2,000-year-old religious institution, steeped in reaction and hostility to science and human progress, might seem to criticize the US government from the left.
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