New York Times Columnist Line of the Day

If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas Friedman, Gail Collins, Nicholas Kristoff, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy.

Today\’s is from Ross \”Do That Thing\” Douthat, who in his surprisingly interesting column \”The Better Pope,\” writes:

Only one churchman comes out of [The National Catholic Reporter Jason] Berry’s story looking good: Joseph Ratzinger.

Turns out, the record of Pope John Paul II on sex abuse in the Church may have been even worse that Benedict\’s.