Weigel: Holy See should break links with Civiltà Cattolica over "incompetence"
In a new article in The Boston Pilot , George Weigel (Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.) takes an interesting look at the recent bizarre article in La Civiltà Cattolica I posted about here . Weigel explains why, despite its' minuscule readership, the publication is important: ...the vast majority of them will read (or at least scan) it, not for scintillating content, but because its articles are vetted by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, and are thus assumed to have some sort of quasi-official status: which means that those articles are taken to reflect the cast of mind of the current pontificate . So if you want to be in the know, you read (or at least scan) Civiltà Cattolica. [emphasis mine] Weigel, like just about everyone else on the planet who has read this article, is scathing on its content and inaccuracy: ...its ill-informed misrepresentation of American religious history; its surreal descriptions of ...