An awful great lot of 'warmth' during Cardinal Vingt-Trois's visit...

To the assembled Pentecost pilgrims, as noted at the Association's site.  It strikes me that this is one measure by which one can distinguish between the faithful who, in spite of episcopal encouragement for the worldly nonsense we see so much of in our churches, and episcopal obduracy that prolongs the plague once begun, remain Catholic, and the faithful who have abandoned certain truths of the Faith believing that they are defending more important ones: I have no doubt that in spite of his Eminence's not entirely impressive accounting of himself before the witness of Tradition he was received with genuine warmth--as he should have been, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church and Archbishop Metropolitan of Paris.  The poor faithful who have separated themselves from their legitimate, if imperfect and sinful, pastors deserve our prayers in these times when Rome, under the influence of his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, is attempting, more directly than in previous years, to ameliorate the distress caused by misconstruings and misapplications of conciliar teaching.