Yaaaaaawwwwwnnnn....
Well. It makes a good base for a Dan Brown like news story:
A sinister(!), conservative, inflexible
doctrinal watchdog Cardinal - future Pope!
A letter in Latin - the language of the evil and mysterious!!!
Now, we need to get the freshly appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of LA involved!! OMG - OPUS DEI!!
And then you throw it at the feet of the average uninformed, already biased regular reader, and you manage to sell a few extra issues of whatever paper will carry the crap!
And!! You manage to be able to tell your grand children that the Vatican was compelled to issue a statement on a piece YOU wrote!
What AP reporter with only the tiniest bit of self respect could resist that scenario?
Another question is: if the clergy in LA in 1985 even understood the letter themselves - being written in that famous, impeccable Ratzingerian Latin.
I must say I'm grateful for one point in the main German broadcast station ARD - they have not really given those last AP accusations much play and have regarded them as sensationalism.
Now, if the regular German media (Stern / Spiegel/ SZ don't count) is even not picking up those pieces, it might tell you something
I wish we could yawn them away, but these are VICIOUS, BLOOD-THIRSTY AGENTS OF SATAN who will stop at nothing now... I am just now watching the AP lead reported across the bottom of my TV screen on the Fox News crawl, which means it will crawl across once every five minutes... Multiply that on TV news channels around the world... We cannot under-estimate AP's clout. What AP media subscriber in the Anglophone world can resist using an apparently JUICY story tagged with this label wherever it's carried on line?
I even have the sickening sensation that either the Times or AP or both are resevring something specially nasty for April 16 or April 19, or on both days....
TERESA
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 10/04/2010 01:23]