GIVE IT UP FOR FATHER G!

Thanks in part to the presence of people like Andrew Greeley within it, LOST can still maintain a tenuous hold on the faith of the Fathers, one which is neither threatened nor weakened by the da Vinci Code or same sex civil unions, Wars on Christmas or any other right wing pinatas created by those of the Loofalafel mindset. In this week's column, which you can find here, Greeley drives home the point that we all should be pondering, now more than ever. Borrowing an idiom from a generation and a half ago, Greeley tells it like it is:

I will leave to God the most merciful, the most compassionate, to decide about the moral guilt of Messrs. Bush and Rumsfeld. Doubtless they acted with good intentions and confidence that God was on their side. In the objective order, however, the only one we can know, they are in part responsible for the murders at Haditha. I doubt that they will be troubled by the TV clip of the young girl who hid under the bed while the Marines executed her family.

They will never be held to this responsibility. The buck no longer stops in the Oval Office, as it did in President Truman's day, or at the Pentagon. It stops with the young men who cracked under strain and their superiors who tried to cover it up. They will be punished and the leadership of the country will proclaim their own great virtue for serving justice. They will not ask themselves, nor will the country ask them, if they might be in part responsible for war crimes.

As for the cover-up, I am part of a group of men who covered up for abusive brother priests. In great part we deny responsibility for what our colleagues did, even though we knew about it or should have known about it. And our leaders, our commanding officers, if you will, still exercise their offices and still presume to prescribe proper morality for the laity.

No one is responsible anymore. For anything.

God Bless you, Father G. Thanks for telling it like it is.