Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
No, seriously.
Irish Independent:
VATICAN investigators to Ireland appointed by Pope Benedict XVI are to clamp down on liberal secular opinion in an intensive drive to re-impose traditional respect for clergy, according to informed sources in the Catholic Church.
The nine-member team led by two cardinals will be instructed by the Vatican to [...]
Well the Catholic Church is certainly showing just how sincerely contrite it is for its systemic failure to report child molesters and child rapists in its ranks.
Not content to compare the criticism the Church has faced to anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews (a claim most eloquently shot out of the water by the [...]
Some headlines that I wish were April Fool jokes, but aren’t:
Pope to give ‘moral guidance’ during UK visit
Child victim of human trafficking in India consoles distraught Lindsay Lohan
What’s that about an act of contrition only counting of the sinner is genuinely remorseful?
The Irish Times:
In a meeting yesterday morning, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, one of Pope Benedict’s top aides, denounced a “conspiracy” against the church. Reuters news agency quoted Cardinal Martins saying that he favoured zero tolerance now, but that, “we should not [...]
Remember how the Infallible Ratzo gave this dressing down to the Irish bishops in his recent pastoral letter?
It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. Serious mistakes were made in responding to [...]
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