Thursday, April 17 2008: Liberal Media
"The pope is expected to deliver a message of peace and hope today. Most people here support the pope, but there are about half a dozen protestors outside [National's stadium] protesting the pope's visit. They say the Catholic Church has played a role in protecting pedophiles, which the pope addressed in a speech given yesterday."
-- paraphrasing WAMU reporter, Jessica Gallaher, this morning on the local NPR station
I don't know what I find more offensive. The suggestion that those "six" people protesting are nutjobs to think the current pope actually authored a letter telling bishops to relocate pedophile priests until the statute of limitations ran out, the implication that there is no merit to the idea that the Catholic Church plays an active role in harboring criminals or that all the pope needs to do to make it ok is say some platitudes after he gets off the plane.
-- paraphrasing WAMU reporter, Jessica Gallaher, this morning on the local NPR station
I don't know what I find more offensive. The suggestion that those "six" people protesting are nutjobs to think the current pope actually authored a letter telling bishops to relocate pedophile priests until the statute of limitations ran out, the implication that there is no merit to the idea that the Catholic Church plays an active role in harboring criminals or that all the pope needs to do to make it ok is say some platitudes after he gets off the plane.
beowulf wrote:
"By the way, do you know when the pope first started getting really nice? When the church stopped having real armies."