Chicago Daily Observer

The Chicago Tribune, the newspaper that did not have space to publish Fr. Pfleger’s death threats last summer, found the space to run a tired op-ed from Robert McClory conjuring up a ghostwriting assignment for Pope Benedict XVI visit to the US this week.

McClory imagines that speaking from “the heart”, the Pope’s top priorities are “its position on the ordination of women, homosexual acts, marriage after divorce, stem cell research and artificial birth control”. McClory speculates that a lack of focus on media friendly issues is what is responsible for a shortage of Catholic churchgoers. So McClory has the Pope jettisoning the missions of the Catholic Church so that he can promote the principles of the secular media and Hollywood like an episode of the Phil Donahue show in 1979 while disregarding the interests of the vast majority of practicing Catholics.

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Top officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met privately with Pope Benedict XVI Oct. 18 for a wide-ranging discussion about the church in the United States, including the pope’s planned visit to the U.S. in the spring.