Posted by Christopher Mc on Monday, December 7, 2009
Under: Church
Listening to Sunday Sequence on Radio Ulster yesterday I was amazed to hear, in response to a question about the Murphy Report, Bishop Donal McKeown, Auxiliarly Bishop of Down and Connor, declare that he had never heard of mental reservation.
I thought to myself, well there could be number of explanations for this:
a) Due to bad hearing and bad teeth he thought he was being asked about "dental preservation";
b) He was making a mental reservation on the basis that he read about it but never actually heard the expression, or in his head he added "never heard of mental reservation (while wearing a pink wedding dress)";
c) He received a post-Vatican II theological education and therefore was too busy pretending to read Enda McDonagh to aactually learn anything about moral theology.
Speaking of McDonagh, I see Sean was having a pop at Vincent Twomey in today's Irish Times. There's a man that enjoys carrying a grudge. Incidently, he had a full page spread in last week's Irish Catholic - about the missions? NO, about emissions - one of the usual modern trinity of the modern missionary.
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