"Drinking too muich Spirit of the Council"

Dominicanus, in Sydney, on the French reverendissimi domini:

... I'm betting on Benedict XVI and against the French Bishops. It's no wonder the Germans have invaded them three times in the last 136 years. If that lot of Gallic roosters were directors in a public company not only would they be sacked, they'd be locked up. Time they were turned into feather dusters.

Fr Ephraem is the only cleric I read in the virtual world who bets on the horses.  And he has editions of von Balthasar and de Lubac on his desk.  One rather suspects that Father N., nearer to home, reads Commonweal for the cachet it lends him in certain circles.  St Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, pray for them all!