Time for rationality, logic and a tempered look at the evidence
Just as Rupert Murdoch says he didn’t know what was going on in the News of the World which accounted for 1% of his global media empire, and we don’t buy that, we also don’t buy that the Vatican didn’t know what went on in the small diocese of Cloyne in its global Church of 1 billion Catholics. We want the Nuncio kicked out, the Embassy to the Vatican closed down and, if horse-whipping was still legal, I’d say we’d be tempted to use it in relation to some bishops and priests.
We need now a degree of rationality and logic and to take time to look at the evidence. We need our government to engage with Church officials here and in the Vatican and discuss this. Statements to the media back and forth are not helping the ultimate cause which is the protection of children.
