I was wondering what does Andrew Sullivan proposes as a solution to what he calls an Orthodox Catholic Pope in Rome? There has always been a Conservative Catholic Church in Rome and former Pope John Paul II may have been an amazingly charismatic person but a very conservative Pope at the same time. If there is a peculiar characteristic of a church it is that the head and his close group of counselors are the most conservative parties you may find in all of their members.
The whole point of that “hardcore conservatism” is to preserve the most sacred roots and traditions of religion and of church.
Pope Benedict XVI is everything but “strictly orthodox Catholicism”. To use such a harsh title for his papacy is just as writing that Ronald Reagan was a radical conservative (which he wasn’t) or Al Gore an ecological hysteric who wants to make the world a green dot in space (which he says to be but, he’s only looking for votes from the ignorant by using that speech).
Europe is not going back to what Andrew pictures as the Medieval Church and its “God in Earth” power to install and destroy Kingdoms in the Old Continent.
Let us not forget that one thing is a Liberal politician and one completely different thing is Liberal priest.
I myself consider a conservative in religion and at the same time a laissez faire capitalist in economics. While I deeply believe in the Pope’s infallibility as a religious leader for the Catholic Christians and obedience shall be always at his order in terms of moral and faith, I also believe that and individual has a right over his life, property and whatever he pleases to do and believe without interfering with what he so deeply regards as the foundations of his Catholic faith.
I cannot dare considering a person that wrote his first encyclical Deus Caritas Est an Orthodox Catholic when he writes about the agape and the eros.
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