todorov & Hitler's Pope

[Richard Romeo]

>CORNWELL'S POPE:
>               "A NASTY CARICATURE OF A NOBLE AND SAINTLY MAN"
>
>               Point by Point Rebuttal by Church Historian. Dr.Peter
>Gumpel
>
>
>"On the whole, one must say that Cornwell, who has never lived in a
>highly organized criminal  police state, is totally unaware of the
>situation prevailing in such a state and that, in consequence, a
>great many of his judgements, appraisals, suggestions, etc., are
>completely unrealistic, utopian and  anachronistic From an historical
>point of view, one must be able to understand the situation as it was
>  then and not judge it with the hindsight from today's situation in
>free countries. To proceed in such an  irresponsible manner is a
>capital mistake which is everywhere present in the book of Cornwell."
>
>I'm guessing that the bulk of these clerics were dealing with the
>likelyhood of incarceration. Now crank that urgency up a couple of
>orders of magnitude, and you've got concentration camp inmates.
>
>love,
>cfa
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if anyone caught last night's Frontline on the life of JP2, one would've 
received the same bullshit. Infallibility is alive and well. It also 
suffered from the Ken Burn syndrome--overbearing music, etc.

I switched to the brady bunch scandals--gos, what a relief.

Rich

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