The Pope revokes the sentence of excommunication upon the Lefebvrists

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I am horrified. Of all the unwelcome, untimely, ill-conceived, unnecessary, insulting and disastrous measures Pope Benedict could have taken, this is the worst. On the very week that the most anti-Catholic and pro-abortion President has taken office in Washington DC, the Pope seems to indicate that open flirtations with Le Pen and Pinochet,

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You are welcome to jump in at any place you like, and I am honoured to find that you are lurking on my LJ. And I mean the word "honoured". However, if you had followed the thread down to exhaustion, you would have noticed that I make the same point. It was not well received.

Do you want to know what I find tragic about this? You and you, filialucis and solitary_summer, are two of the most remarkable women in my f-list. You are both ridiculously talented. filialucis is an amazing polymath who sometimes addresses me in Latin for fun, speaks four or five languages, plays the guitar and is intelligent on almost any subject under the sun. solitary_summer is a photographer of genius, and I never use the word "genius" unless I absolutely have to. She has, in the last few years, produced enough memorable images for me to find it ridiculous that she should publish them in her own little LJ rather than in great exhibitions advertised on national newspapers and visited by tens of thousands of intelligent visitors. You live in the same country, speak the same language, and are both highly civilized people. You ought to be friends. Instead of which, thanks to the curse of the party spirit - which leads one of you to insist that there must, there just must, be something about a group that has some features of Catholic traditionalism, and that they cannot be condemned en bloc - your first encounter is a baring of teeth; not only dreadfully sad in itself, but completely unsuited to the kind of persons I know you both to be. What a stupid waste.

[solitary_summer]

*blush* I actually did notice you made that point, but I still couldn't shut up. Sorry!

And, thank you. Maybe some day I'll have as much faith in myself as you have in talent....

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As for your talent, I judge as I see. As an artist of sorts, I do have a bit of an educated eye and I think I can tell quality, let alone brilliance, when it bites me on the leg.

As for your intervention, there is nothing to apologize for - especially since you were supporting my view. However, my problem was that filialucis has already reacted - and reacted badly - to a variant of that particular argument; I doubt whether this will do anything to change her mind. And I feel sad, both about her anger at me, and the fact that two such persons as you two should have met on such unworthy terms - unworthy of you both.