Media criticism of Pope has no link with atrocities visited on the Jews

QUOTE sluts, in the days of Bill Clinton’s presidency, were the people outside of the administration who could be activated to come out in support of an emerging policy or make a statement helpful to the president.

Instead of someone from the inside making a positive statement and thereby eliciting the inevitable response of “well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?” someone with ostensibly little to gain would be prompted to raise an issue and thereby give it wider currency.

The Vatican doesn’t seem to have cottoned on to the quote sluts concept. Over the past couple of weeks, their support of Pope Benedict has come from within his own circle. This would have been ineffective but forgettable if his confessor hadn’t got in on the act with a stirring homily on Good Friday, which effectively shot the Pontiff in both slippered feet.