Posted by Christopher Mc on Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Under: Church
Funny how prescient I can be. You will recall yesterday how I suggested the liberals would like to have advised the Pope over condoms - don't answer questions and if you do, evade. Well tomorrow's Irish Catholic will have an editorial on the Pope. Not alone will it use the standard secular prism of "Pope in crisis" but it will convey that dodgy, cowardly advice. I quote:
"A good media adviser would have told him not to address this issue on th eflight to Africa, but to address it while in Africa and maybe to delegate the responsibility to a local official or either Church or State."
Or to paraphrase Obama - "that question's below my pay grade".
On the front page they "defend" the Pope with headline "Irish missionary defends Pope in HIV/Aids row". That sounds promising, until you read:
"Fr [Michael] Kelly disagreed with the Pope's comment that condoms "risk aggravating" the problem. "There is no evidence to support his suggestion that condoms can increase the problem by leading to promiscuity. It is a pity that wehn he was trying to say something good, in a helpful way, that led to an off-the-cuff comment ath could be seen as damaging."
That's the sort of defence witness you get in TV dramas who suddenly break down and reveal the accused really is guilty after all.
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