Boxing in Papa Ratzi

Thank you Michael P. for pointing us to David Gibson's column titled "The Pope is a Liberal.  Who Knew?"  It amuses me in a sad sort of way that people like Gibson and others attempt continually to paint the Pope as either liberal or conservative, attempting to box him in to one of their pre-constructed boxes to support their pre-existing causes.  "He is the head of a conservative patriarchy."  Or, "he is a liberal, at least in American political terms."  I suspect that the Pope lives far beyond the garden of liberal or conservative.  As I have suggested many times on this blog in the past, I think the cause of dialogue and unity would greatly be advanced if we stopped all this talk of us vs. them, which only reduces our listening capacity and hardens our hearts toward the other.