Digital Common Sense

My son posted a Letter to Pope Benedict XVI.

Letter to Pope Benedict XVI

November 29, 2005

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican City State, 00120
Italy

Your Holiness:

I am writing to you on a matter of grave importance. As I was viewing the list of patron saints on Catholic Online, I noticed a big oversight. There is no patron saint for fools or idiots! I find it hard to believe that a church that cares so deeply for people and has patron saints watching over just about any person or cause, does not have a patron saint for fools and idiots. There are a great many fools and idiots in the world, you know?

I am writing to respectfully request that George W. Bush, President of the United States, be canonized and made the patron saint of idiots and fools.

Yes, that’s parental pride in a son who thinks through very complex issues and does a fabulous job of cutting through the crap.

I see my own header tag “distilling fact from the vapor of nuance” and appreciate that, while our interests and passions are different in many ways, he is a chip off the old block.

Filed by Ken at 5:50 pm under General