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Entry: A Black New Year for the Good Conrad Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_black_new_year_for_the_good_conrad#12930 Post contents: As a Roman Catholic who happens to live in Canada, I have been following the Conrad Black debacle for many years. I have heard that this man is supposed to be a co-religionist, but I see no evidence of it in his public behaviour whatsoever. Christ's message was essentially one of peace; peace with God, and peace with our neighbours. "Peace be with you," he said on more than one occasion in the Gospels. Our Lord did not concoct so-called 'just war' theories, as eminent Church fathers have done for their own worldly reasons in the past. He chastised Peter when that man cut off the ear of the centurion in the Garden of Gethsemane. Conrad Black is a worldy and hawkish war-monger if ever there was one. While he is never likely to admit it, his thinking on matters geopolitical has obviously been influenced by his second wife, an angry agnostic cultural Jewess. He supports the maintenance of the stooge dictator of Pakistan by the Americans, as evidenced in his most recent opinion piece in the National Post, wherein he identified the duplicitous general as 'our son-of-a-bitch,' taking his cue from Dr. Strangelove himself. It seems strange indeed that Monsieur Taki is trying to defend Conrad at this time of his complete and utterly deserved disgrace. Ditto for Conrad's priest friend, Father Raymond de Souza, who also writes defending the indefensible in the same war-mongering rag. It may be very loyal of Taki and Father de Souza to say nice things about this convicted felon and embarrassment to the Church, assuredly, and for a few more weeks might guarantee them future invitations to pretentious bye-bye parties at the Blacks' Palm Beach manse, but this kind of sycophantism tends to disappoint those of us who thought that this website was a haven for clear thinking on these issues. Sent at: 2008 07 25