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At the same time Giuliani was MIA at Ground Zero, our local Cardinal was polishing apples and kissing butts at the Vatican for the month of October instead of presiding, as he should have, at every fireman's funeral he could get to. Interviewed from Rome, he had the gall to say that he was enjoying being there. He could have expressed even insincere chafing at the bit but, no. He was having a good time.
His predecessor, Cardinal O'Connor, would have told the Pope that his city had been attacked and that he could not spend a month away from the suffering. And the Pope would have assented because he knew what good episcopal behavior looked like. It looked like Avery Dulles, also a cardinal, who gathered up some kids at Fordham University and helped them wtih their fears.
A lot of people, including Christie Whitman, were AWOL during those weeks and many of the rest of us are bitter about it.
