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BLAMING THE MESSENGER FOR THE MESS

The RCs are not doing well this week. The scandal about handling child abuse spreads. More coverups are found. The black tide begins to lap at the pope's feet.

And so, what is the reaction in this week that is supposed to be holy? Attack and deny.

Vatican Lashes Out At The New York Times Over Sex Abuse Coverage

This is an AP story.

This is familiar territory.

The holier than thou thing gets old.

Ratzinger was said to be a poor choice for exactly this kind of situation. They just never thought it would go this far.

Infallibility fosters some pretty deep denial. They seem to forget that the whole idea of divine right is shaky even to their own people.

I read somewhere that the whole resurgence of this stuff also threatens the drive to beatify the polish guy we had last time.

Let's face it. We are dealing in politics now.

The pope is a head of state. He is liable. He says not but still.

They are playing hard ball. I suspect they will get hard ball back.

This is so sad for people who practice the Roman Catholic faith. A rotten leadership. No attention paid to critical issues within the Church.

I know many people who are torn by this scandal and the official response to it.

The political is truly personal and when it touches home it is quite painful.

They don't seem to get that either. Hierarchy is hierarchy. The bottom does not matter.

All the pretty dresses and hats and staffs aren't going to keep reality away.

This is not new. They are just repeating on a world scale what occurred in the US, first in the local dioceses and then nationally.

In 1992, Cardinal Bernard Law, archbishop of Boston, said, "By all means we call down the power of God on the media, particularly the Globe." It was a public excoriation for the paper's relentless criticisms of the Church's handling of abuse cases.

In a sense, the power of God did come down on The Boston Globe: it became an unwitting instrument through which the Church was forced to face -- for the first time on a nationwide, mandatory, system-wide basis -- the crimes of its priests and the sins of the bishops who had shuttled them from parish to parish in decades past.......James Martin, SJ is a Catholic priest and the author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything.

It's Not About the Media

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