One Thesis
By Mitch Berg
Fifty years ago, the great slander against Catholic politicians was that they’d have to take orders from Rome.
That might almost be preferable to the world Pope Benedict seemed to espouse last week. He seems to be cuddling up to the UN:
Pope Benedict on Friday called for collective diplomacy, and not “the decisions of a few” to resolve conflicts and said human rights had to be based on “unchanging justice” and not the legal whims of the day.
Constitution. Check.
At the United Nations, normally formal diplomats and bureaucrats snapped pictures of the pope with their cell phone cameras and jostled to get close as he moved through the institution’s corridors.Praising the founding principles of the U.N., Benedict said the world body should and does serve as an “active example” of how conflicts can be solved based on shared regulations and values.
Did someone slip spray paint into the sacramental wine?
Or is there another UN in New York I’m not aware of?
What “conflict” has the UN “solved” with “shared regulations?” What “values” does the US “share” with a body that condemns Israel but ignores terrorism? With an organization that was bought off by Saddam Hussein’s oil money?
If our nation ever “shares values” with Dag Hammarskjold, we should just pack it in right now.
Sorry, Pope Benedict. Swing and a miss.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:42 am
So the Strib found one diplomat who agreed with their ‘rebuking the president’ claim?
Here’s Benedict’s address to the UN:
http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/Pope_speech.pdf
He seemed to spend an awful lot of time on human rights, religious freedom, and the duty of a secular state to welcome the influence of religious-minded citizens.
The remarks that may have been seen as directed against the Iraq War could equally be seen as being an admonition against the UN for failing to deal with the Iraq problem in a unified manner.