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Geoghan as Saint?

How kind of you to elevate Father Geoghan to sainthood [see Who Killed Father Geoghan, October 2003]. I thought only the Pope could do that.

Kent
Oceanside, California

The Pope is shirking his duties these days-- and doubtless worried what implications his flawed career has for his afterlife. But seriously, seeing Father Geoghan, as our coverage did, as a flawed but fairly ordinary human being only renders him saint-like if one has accepted the preposterous media- and money-driven demonization that he endured-- and that led directly to his murder.

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Francophobe

Jim D'Entremont's paean to France in praise of his freebie junket and castigating the US [Vive La France! August 2003] is typical of the US left-liberal establishment. I would remind Mr. D'Entremont of the other side of Frenchman.

While his group was being wined and dined, twelve thousand older French citizens perished in their recent heat wave because of their August vacation syndrome where the elderly are abandoned in cities to languish without care.

Sure they hate the US because France (and their pal Germany) want to control all the other nations of Europe and are jealous of the US which is in the forefront of modern culture and ideas. And who wouldn't want to bypass France's beloved UN-- a group that makes Libya's Gaddafi head of the Human Rights Commission, Syria a member of the Security Council, caters to the Arab states, those paragons of virtue who persecute gays and lesbians, who supported Sadam Hussein's cruel and inhuman dictatorship in Iraq.

Can Mr. D'Entremont tell me if the US is such a bad place, why do so many people risk their lives to try and enter the US to live there?

shaben@sympatico.ca
Canada

As noted in the piece, the trip took place between June 23 and July 3-- a month before the heat wave crisis. The article does not portray the French as generically anti-American at all, since they are not. And as mentioned in the article, a significant focus of French gay activism is to try to obtain political asylum for gay men and lesbians from hard-line Islamic states like Libya.