July 18, 2003

NY Daily News - Ideas and Opinions - Bill O'Reilly: Vatican has gone quiet when we need it most

O'Reilly has it right in his analysis of the paralysis in the Vatican leadership due in no small part to the stifling bureaucracy and the Pope's feeble condition. The American crisis concerning sexually deviant priests has severely impeded the Catholic Church's moral authority to speak into the secular world a message of morality and against evil.

VPR's recent interview with Burlington Bishop Kenneth Angell revealed an elderly leader lacking the power of persuasion and articulate responses to good questions.

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