The Catholic Church was, at its origins, the wellspring of Western civilization. To see it return to these origins, to that part of it which is essential and therefore truly catholic or universal, the wellspring, perhaps, of a universal civilization in the making, is no mean spectacle.
This is not from a Ross Douthat column, by the way. This is from The Nation. That would be the same periodical that sees no value in the efforts of Ukrainians to get rid of their corrupt, cynical oligarchs and find dignity in popular organizing and activism.
That’s the shitty kind of progressive media we get.
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Well, Stephen F. Cohen, one of the biggest supporters of Russia and especially Putin, writes for The Nation….so that’s certainly a major factor in their cold shoulder to the Ukrainians.
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You are absolutely right. He’s been singing praise to USSR and then to Putin for a very long time.
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“The NATION” has ALWAYS (for almost hundred years , ever since the Soviet revolution) been pro-Communist, pro-USSR, anti-Boris Yeltsin (because he liked America), and pro-Putin. At this point, how is this news to anybody?
Of course, it’s now also pro-Corbyn.
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