[Mrs. Don-o]

Whoa! Waitaminnit. Associated Press is saying "The Vatican" said all this, when it's an article in "L'Osservatore Romano"?

Jeepers FReepers, people, use your heads.

Last week it was E.J. Dionne blathering on in the Washington Post about an article in "L'Osservatore Romano" about Obama's first 100 days, written by "Giuseppe Fiorentino" --- not the Pope or a Bishop or a priest or anything but a ... wait for it ... foreign affairs correspondant.

A lowly stringer to a daily newspaper which, while it does publish approved translations of official Church texts, otherwise operates as an independent newspaper whose masthead motto is Unicuique suum ("To each his own").

This is not the latest chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, my friends.

So now we've got AP referring to a "L'Osservatore Romano" unsigned editorial --- they don't even have ol' Giuseppe to quote --- and they're trying to pass it off a "Vatican policy"??

AP: ignorant or deliberate deceiver?

Probably both. Terry Mattingly over at "GetReligion" says you can always knock off 50 IQ points on any AP article about religion, because they're just so dumb: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

But I want to add that, there's also an agenda here, as broad as a barn door.

Has AP quoted the ACTUAL top Vatican official who HAS spoken out against Obama at Notre Dame? No? Archbishop Raymond Burke, the head of the Apostolic Signatura (roughly analogous to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)? Don't remember seeing that one?

But now some unsigned editorial appears in a non-official daily newspaper, and bang, it's Vatican dogma?

Sheesh.

(Shakes head. Considers going outside to dig up some yummy worms from the leaf-lettuce bed.)

[wagglebee]

Great post!

[jaydubya2]

Thanks Mrs. Don-o,

Have you found the actual L'Osservatore Romano editorial that the AP is referring to? I couldn't.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Please see mine at #76.

[Cheetahcat]

“Whoa! Waitaminnit. Associated Press is saying “The Vatican” said all this, when it’s an article in “L’Osservatore Romano”?
Jeepers FReepers, people, use your heads.

Last week it was E.J. Dionne blathering on in the Washington Post about an article in “L’Osservatore Romano” about Obama’s first 100 days, written by “Giuseppe Fiorentino” -— not the Pope or a Bishop or a priest or anything but a ... wait for it ... foreign affairs correspondant.

A lowly stringer to a daily newspaper which, while it does publish approved translations of official Church texts, otherwise operates as an independent newspaper whose masthead motto is Unicuique suum (”To each his own”).

This is not the latest chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, my friends.

So now we’ve got AP referring to a “L’Osservatore Romano” unsigned editorial -— they don’t even have ol’ Giuseppe to quote -— and they’re trying to pass it off a “Vatican policy”??

AP: ignorant or deliberate deceiver?

Probably both. Terry Mattingly over at “GetReligion” says you can always knock off 50 IQ points on any AP article about religion, because they’re just so dumb: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

But I want to add that, there’s also an agenda here, as broad as a barn door.

Has AP quoted the ACTUAL top Vatican official who HAS spoken out against Obama at Notre Dame? No? Archbishop Raymond Burke, the head of the Apostolic Signatura (roughly analogous to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)? Don’t remember seeing that one?

But now some unsigned editorial appears in a non-official daily newspaper, and bang, it’s Vatican dogma?

Sheesh.

(Shakes head. Considers going outside to dig up some yummy worms from the leaf-lettuce bed.)”

Good catch thank you.

[mckenzie7]

Thank you....thank you.....thank you.

Now I can relax!

[trisham]

Excellent post, Mrs. D.

[Houghton M.]

I see that I was mistaken. Apparently there is a new statement in the current OR edition about the May 17 events. AP is not resurrecting the April 29 story about the first 100 days but commenting directly on yesterday’s events.

But OR does not equal “The Vatican.”

Still, it’s distressing that OR is so clueless about the very real political game that Obama was playing yesterday—they’ve taken his bait hook, line and sinker.

It’s all the more important now that either the American bishops or Burke or Benedict directly confront today’s OR statement.

[Landru]

Thank you both very much.
I'll get up to speed on this people, places and titles matter, eventually.
With a little help from my friends. ;^)

IF the MSM quislings are taking things out of context, and I believe they most certainly do and are because they can and that's what they do?
Who, but the Pope himself, can set this straight for the world?

That one's kind of a rhetorical question while then again, kind of not. ;^)

[justiceseeker93]

Thanks for the clarification in your post # 76.

[lastchance]

I agree with you.

[Lauren BaRecall]

"Giuseppe Fiorentino"

Do you mean "Giuseppe Cardinal Fiorentino?" LOL!

[Scotswife]

LOL!!

Good post Mrs. Don-o.

It’s getting to the point that whenever I read something is being attributed as being from “the Vatican” - you can be durn sure it ain’t.

And when the headline says “the Pope says...”
You can be durn sure they’ve edited him out of context to place him in the most unfavorable light.