les intellectuels

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Apr 26, 2005

A friend of mine regularly watches a French news program called Kiosque, in which half a dozen lefty highbrow journalists kick around the news of the week past. He told me one of the journos this past Sunday gave voice to her contempt for the decision to accord news coverage to the papal inaugural Mass, remarking scornfully that Ratzinger even pinched his punch-line -- "Be Not Afraid!" -- from a speech Jacques Chirac gave two weeks ago.

It's going to be a long struggle, folks.