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Jun. 26th, 2007 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafI feel that I'm being a hypocrite, since I would agree with some of the Blair decisions which have been suggested as cause for Our Dear Leader (rtd)'s stand up knock down fight free and frank exchange of views on delicate subjects with the Pope†, though by no means all of them - the war with Iraq being the most obvious instance. But my primary reaction has been (a) glee and (b) fangirling Benedict.
Maybe it's just the thought of Blair being called on his sanctimoniousness; the Guardian's insinuation that by converting now he has taken some sort of courageous decision to put faith before politics particularly annoyed me. Had he been going to do that, he'd have done it years ago.
† Do you think they've got the blood stains out of the Vatican carpets yet?
Maybe it's just the thought of Blair being called on his sanctimoniousness; the Guardian's insinuation that by converting now he has taken some sort of courageous decision to put faith before politics particularly annoyed me. Had he been going to do that, he'd have done it years ago.
† Do you think they've got the blood stains out of the Vatican carpets yet?
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Date: 2007-06-26 01:18 pm (UTC)Neither did Blair, I suspect.
Goodness alone knows what the row was about, but as the Observer points out. it's quite unusual for the Vatican to use language suggestive of meetings being disharmonious, so it must have been quite some dust-up.