Posted on 01/17/2018 8:01:30 PM PST by ebb tide
“The New York Times notes...”
No, they lie and distort.
Then what's the truth?
Numerous other news sites reported that Barros took part in the papal mass. Do you claim he didn't?
We’ve had bad popes before. They’re dead; the Church lives.
The media report every transgression by a cleric as the core of the Church’s teaching.
Yes, the current pope is favoring everything that damages the Church and scandalizes the faithful, but the media report it as the very nature of Christianity and the Catholic Church.
It ain’t. It is heresy and blasphemy, not the teachings of the Church.
And how did the NYT article in question do that?
but the media report it as the very nature of Christianity and the Catholic Church.
And how did the NYT article in question do that?
Ive taken some time to go over both articles, because your question deserves an answer.
In this article, the slimes reports that the pope did this or that, and leaves it for their audience to infer that this is the nature of Catholicism. Not everyone will draw that inference, but some will.
What really offended me was the way they handled the sodomite cleric problem, and I include the pope in that.
They presented statements by one victim of homosexual abuse and two anti-Catholic activists who are in business to flog the Church with any stick that comes to hand. No one who might have had something reasonable and intelligent to say on the matter was given a voice.
The impression they are trying to create here is that sodomy among the clergy is an institutional fact of life within the Catholic Church, and that the hierarchy supports and protects sodomite clergy without in any way coming into conflict with Christian doctrine.
Its a hot mess that will, they hope, cause the reader to shake his head and think uncomplimentary thoughts about the Catholic Churchnot just about this pope, Bishop Barros, or the other sodomite clerics, but about the Church as a whole.
In my view, then, they are saying, in effect if not in so many words, This is what the Catholic Church is.
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