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Entry: The Silence of Father Neuhaus Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_silence_of_father_neuhaus#7843 Post contents: Fr. Neuhaus's comments are sophistical and disingenous in the extreme. First he feigns ignorance about the "exotic" Catholics who write in the Wanderer. Then he recovers enough acquaintance with "Joe" Sobran to find it "bizarre" that he and Zinn have made common cause against an unjust and immoral war. I suppose the real story is that no one finds it "bizarre" that Neuhaus and others have made common cause with the likes of the bloodthirsty Michael Ledeen and Christopher Hitchens. And along the way Neuhaus finds the time to trot out the anti-Semetic brickbat against the newspaper that was among the first to come out against the Nazis, and was banned from Hitler's Germany. The abounding ironies of Neuhaus's selective memory (his civil-rights background, the End of Democracy affair) would be exceedingly humorous, were it not for the fetid stench of hypocrisy. Maybe Fr. Neuhaus should concentrate on penning the long overdue apology for FT's dissimulation on behalf of Bush Administration re: Iraq, based on their priviledged access to highly placed figures, which allowed them to assure Catholics that they could ignore two Popes on Just War Doctrine, because the "prudential judgement" of our leaders was sound, and they had access to information which demonstrated just what a "threat" Saddam was. Sent at: 2008 10 06