The Times has once more surpassed itself in its own abyss of anti-Catholicism. Today there is an article on the Pastoral Letter, entitled "Call the police - that's what Pope Benedict should have said;" which is remarkably stupid even for a headline. The article is so moronic that it is not worth commenting on. It is on p. 19, I think; it is by Ken MacDonald; and if the reader really wants to read it, he can find out for himself. Quite apart from the discussions of abuse, and the "complicity of the Vatican," and all the rest of it, why does MacDonald make an absurd assertion that the Letter includes a "swipe at Pope John XXIII's Second Vatican Council"? The Pope said that its instructions were "difficult to implement." That is a swipe at the Council? Sorry, at Pope John XXIII's Second Vatican Council, I should have said, in case I confused it with somebody else's Second Vatican Council. Or in case I were writing for a readership ignorant of what the Second Vatican Council was. Such, I would suggest, as much of the readership of The Times.
The imbecility of people who write comments on things on the Internet never ceases to depress me.
But that such depraved ravings are printed in The Times is most depressing; for The Times is of all newspapers the most representative of what Cobbett called "THE THING," or, as we call it, "the Establishment."
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Blantant anti-Catholicism in the media can usually be chalked up to ignorance and bigotry, but I would suggest that the problem of this particular writer is not imbecility but painful memories and a deeply wounded mind. From the article:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 11, my parents sent me to a Christian Brothers boarding school. The Brothers were not priests but, even without the significant compensations of priestly rites and privileges, they had dedicated themselves to a life of celibacy, 30 or 40 years without the comfort of touch. We boys knew which of them couldn’t handle it, and we all knew why, from time to time, one or another moved stealthily on to a different school. It wasn’t a secret to us, even if it was to their Church.
Quidem.
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