iserere.org doesn’t get too many comments, despite the fact that we have 25-50 unique visitors per day — each of whom stays for over 10 minutes and views on average 2-3 pages (in addition to the homepage).

But today, we received the following comment from Pamela in response to Fr. Neuhaus’ open letter “On Benedict and Beauty” (posted on miserere.org here and on First Things here). It easily wins the Comment of the Year award for calling a spade a spade:

If I understand this correctly, Fr. Neuhaus is taking Pope Paul VI to task for appointing Bugnini… although he then relegated Bugnini to the back woods of Iran, because the Pope realized Bugnini was not serving the Church well. But who kept Bugnini’s “able assistant” in the same post for the next quarter century to continue to do the Church great harm? Only Fr. Neuhaus’ late “Great” John Paul II.

John Paul II and Reagan do indeed have a great deal in common…they are both teflon-coated. Nobody blames John Paul for anything that is wrong in the Church, even though he was Pope for the longest, most dreadful 25 years.

Time to reevaluate and assess blame where it really belongs… squarely on the shoulders of John Paul II, not Paul VI.

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