tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post4251883679615502496..comments2024-03-14T03:19:44.337-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: Today on Kresta - February 25, 2010Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-67944554384785923612010-02-28T15:35:48.798-05:002010-02-28T15:35:48.798-05:00Re: Nick's Interview With Paul Kengor About Hi...Re: Nick's Interview With Paul Kengor About Hillary Clinton <br /><br />This looks like another good opportunity to expose Hillary as a phony Christian. Paul Kengor, in his Weekly Standard article, rightfully wants to find out what happened to the Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children and why Hillary is still recounting the story of how she helped Mother Teresa found it. Was the home a Potemkin village designed to improve Hillary's image? If it was, the Missionaries of Charity, an order founded by Mother Teresa that operated the home, should not have participated in it for even one second. <br /><br />Emily Belz, who authored the World Magazine article cited by Kengor, called the Missionaries of Charity to find out what happened. The nun who answered the phone told Belz that the nuns aren't allowed to talk to the press. She wouldn't even give out her name. <br /><br />They aren't allowed to talk to the press? They won't give out their names? Why? What's going on? <br /><br />The nun did give Belz a small bit of information. She told Belz that she didn't know why the home had been closed, because the nuns currently in the order were not in the order when the home opened back in 1995. She also told Belz that the order sold the house in 2002. <br /><br />(The authors of a <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/2277/the_abandoned_orphanage:_hillary_clinton%E2%80%99s_mother_teresa_moment" rel="nofollow">left wing article</a> cited by Kengor, that casts Hillary and everybody else in an unfavorable light, had a similar experience with the nuns. They just won't talk. They also called Hillary's office back in 2006, when she was still a senator. Same thing. They wouldn't talk.)<br /><br />Belz wants to continue to report on the story, specifically on why Hillary didn't "follow up" on the home. Kengor, as he says in his Weekly Standard article, also wants answers: "Where’s Mrs. Clinton’s commitment? Why not strive to keep the home open? Where are her wealthy liberal friends, overflowing with compassion for the needy?" <br /><br />I hope they contact Hillary and ask her about it. Put the screws to her. But there are other questions that need to be asked. How was the home originally funded? How did it last 8 years? Did the home do any good? Why did the order close it down? Did the diocese of Washington D.C. have anything to do with the home? How much did the archbishop at the time, the late Cardinal Hickey, know about it? (According to a June 20, 1995 <a href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/7756642.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS&date=Jun+20%2C+1995&author=Constable%2C+Pamela&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=B3&desc=Mother+Teresa+opens+home+for+infants" rel="nofollow">Washington Post article</a>, he attended the opening ceremony.) When the order closed the home, was the archbishop at that time (Cardinal Hickey or Cardinal McCarrick) involved? Was the home ever considered to be included in George Bush's Faith Based Initiative? <br /><br />Finally, I do ask that we be honest about our motivations. At the end of the interview, Nick told Kengor: "Well, it's a fascinating article. I hope that people understand the point of this article and it's not just an opportunity to call Hillary Clinton an inconsistent Christian." What? Of course that was the point of the article, Nick, and also the point of your interview. If that wasn't the point, then what was?maumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250198272377329639noreply@blogger.com