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I Wouldn't Say The World Is My Parish, But My Readers Are My Parish. And Especially The Readers That Write To Me. They're My Parish. And It's A Responsibility That I Enjoy.

As The Criminal, Sinful War In Iraq Enters Its Third Year, The President Goes To Europe To Heal The Wounds Between The United States And Its Former Allies, On His Own Terms Of Course.

Survey Data Suggest That War Has Become More Unpopular. The Majority Of The American People Now Think It Was A Mistake, In A Shift Away From The 51 Percent That Endorsed It On Election Day. Admittedly This Is Only A Small Change In The Population, From A Majority To A Minority. Nor Do The Changers Earn Grace For Their New Opinions. They Still Endorsed The War On Election Day And Are Still Responsible For It.

The Leadership Lost Its Nerve. Instead Of Taking The Lead In The Reform Movement... They Pulled The Plug On It. They Tried And Are Still Trying To Return The Church To The Dry Ice Of The Previous Century And A Half.

The Men Who Were Running The Church In The Late '60s And '70s Panicked When They Saw The Chaos, Which Developed After The Council. The Relatively Modest Changes Of Those Years Thawed The Ice In Which Catholicism Had Been Frozen Since The French Revolution.