His Eminence is Too Tired

at 9:51 AM Friday, September 2, 2011

This week, the Ladies in White asked to meet with Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega in order to seek his intervention against the upswing in violence towards Cuba's pro-democracy movement.

Yet, when the Ladies in White arrived for the scheduled meeting, the Cardinal was a no-show.

Instead, they were received by Msgr. Ramon Suarez Polcari and spokesman Orlando Marquez -- as the Cardinal was "recuperating" from a recent trip to Spain.

In other words, the Cardinal was too tired from his visit to Madrid to meet with the Ladies in White, who'd just been brutally beaten by Castro's thugs.

So who really needed "recuperating"?

Peaceful female activists facing down constant physical repression or a Cardinal dealing with jet-lag (and perhaps too much red wine and Serrano ham)?

Of course, The Ladies in White, with the distinction that characterizes them, downplayed the Cardinal's snub.

But it's indicative of where the Cardinal's misplaced priorities lie.