Well, thank God for a little relief in the tragedy.

Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint are safe. Domino and his family were evacuated via helicopter, and Toussaint was among the crowd of refugees at the Superdome.

Incredible arrogance

I hope the Pope does not bother to receive any Lefebvrite representative until they have learned some manners, let alone common sense (http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4761). Even apart from the outrageous notion of making demands of the Successor of Peter; apart from the bathetic and egotistical use of the eschatological hope of "establishing all things in Christ" to describe the end of a very minor schism; given their claim to love and respect the See of Peter, who the Devil do they think they are, not only setting terms for their re-entry into the Church (which, in and of itself, is not unreasonable), but demanding that the Church "must move first"? Is that the way that the head of a small group with four bishops and a few hundred thousand members addresses the head of the greatest religious body in the world, with a billion baptized members, hundreds of millions of practicing adults, a presence in almost every country on Earth? These people have spent thirty years breaking off from the world, insulating themselves in thei right coccoons of imagined legitimacy, that even when they want to interact with the world outside, to deal with things as they are, they simply do not know how. They have forgotten, or never learned, the basics of diplomacy and good manners.