Picture courtesy of Whispers in the Loggia.

Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone, a Salesian priest, is sending semafore signals? The first major administrator of the current administration to address an American group in the USA, Bertone spoke at the current international meeting of the Knights of Columbus in Nashville. Only disappointment in the picture is that the flagwaver was not wearing a cowboy's hat!

There was much hootin' and hollerin' from the Knights when the Cardinal told the group that he would greatly assist in pushing forward the canonization of the founder of the Knights of Columbus, Fr. Michael McGivney. As Knights' Supreme Chaplain, Bishop William Lori commented on Mother Angelica's TV station, the canonization of Fr. McGivney would be a great boost to American priests ... to have a native American priest, the first, to be canonized.