This bit of "analysis" from UPI's senior writer Roland Flamini (biography here, scroll down a bit) provides a few laugh-out-loud moments. Perhaps UPI should have called up their religion editor, Uwe Siemon-Netto, for this one.
For example, did you know that Archbishop Angelo Amato is a member of the Silesian order? No, not the Salesians of Saint John Bosco, as a 5-second web search would reveal, but, apparently, the Silesians of Poland. :-)
We also learn that some folks in the Vatican -- or Holy See, as we diplomatic insiders call it -- are busy turning back those pesky clocks:
He needs to find a replacement for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Bavarian-born, rigidly conservative Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith who has been second in importance only to John Paul II himself in putting the clock back -- as many observers see it -- on the progressive reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Ah, journalism.
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