Father Dennis Desse,President of St. Thomas University,has changed his mind. Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be welcomed to speak at the university. Deese's humble and intelligent letter can be found here: http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200741/Wednesday/Dease10_10_07.cfm

Archbishop Tutu's actual speech in Boston from 2002 that started the whole brouhaha can be found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,706911,00.html

An editorial in The Jewish Daily Forward, "The Tutu Heave-Ho," takes a sane and sober look at the brouhaha and offers that link to Tutu's remarks. Here is their editorial: http://www.forward.com/articles/11777/

UPDATE: Typo: The name is Dease, not Desse. Apologies

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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