http://www.newscloud.com/section/chiurch Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:42:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_pope_s_US_visit_Media_White_House_Congress_embrace_spokesman_for_religious_obscurantism It is a measure of the profound decay of American democracy that when the president of the United States welcomed the Roman Catholic pontiff to Washington last week, a major concern was that the representative of a 2,000-year-old religious institution, steeped in reaction and hostility to science and human progress, might seem to criticize the US government from the left.

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