After a week of media beatification of the late Pope John Paul 2 I've waiting for Christopher Hitchens, my favourite contrarian to lay into the old pontif. I mean he managed to write an entire book about how bad Mother Theresa was, so clearly he has now limits to his naysaying. However it seems that Arianna Huffington has managed to beat Hitchens too it in her latest column A Cornucopia of Death.
There's nothing new and suprising in Arianna's column, but I congratulate her on trying to be a little more balanced than 99% of the writing about JP in the last week. Maybe it was just too soon to expect to hear contrarian opinions, I mean after 9/11 no one was rushing to say "thank goodness, those buildings were too small anyway", but now that is the driving force behind all the new development at that site.
So will the flaws of JP's reign rise make it into the Catholic zeitgeist soon enough to make a difference in the selection of his successor? Or will they instead just go for a JP-clone who'll continue to spread the primary message of propogation uber-alles and blind-faith denial in the face of continuing moral decay from within the Catholic Church.
Who knows - the jury is out and we're waiting for smoke signals.
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