Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
Because I am a masochist, I stuck on RTE One last night, you know, to see how my licence fee was being spent. And I got a forceful reminder of how bad an idea that was in the form of two movements from the bowels of RTE Factual department.
First up – the Frontline, [...]
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 [...]
From the same institution that brought you magic biscuit worship as a solution to systemic child abuse by its members.
The Sydney Morning Herald:
Exorcism is no fantasy according to the church, with the Sydney archdiocese last month appointing an as-yet unnamed priest, suitably ”endowed with piety, knowledge, prudence and integrity of life” to [...]
If you want a laugh, you could do worse than reading the pope’s pastoral letter to the Church in Ireland on the small matter of widespread child rape by Catholic priests and its cover up by the Church hierarchy.
Benedict XVI opens by saying how shocked, shocked, he is at all the child rape and molestation [...]
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