The single dumbest statement of 2006.

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Dec 04, 2006

It comes, not surprisingly, from James Carroll of the Boston Globe, writing about what he always writes about: the intellectual deficiencies of the Catholic Church leadership, which has the temerity to disagree with him.

This time, in a disconnected ramble prompted by the Pope's visit to Turkey, Carroll notes that St. Benedict was not officially named the patron saint of Europe until 1964. Perhaps you don't grasp the significance:

That the patron of Europe could be a man from Rome, associated with the Benedictine monasteries that flourished from Italy to Ireland and back, was an implicit affirmation less of the whole culture than of the NATO alliance.

Elsewhere in the column our hero announces: "The old structures of mind must be dismantled." He's got a head start.