Re:The latest allegation and the Holy Father
Sorry to disappoint you Cowgirl but this has twice already been the main news item on BBC World tonight, with commentary, and presented in such a way that it appears rather damning for the Pope. The letter is shown, with his signature, plus two main clauses which are thrown into the viewers eyes - "wait longer" and "for the good of the Universal Church".They imply he was stalling the 'defrocking" of the man ( showed his picture and I must say this guy is one of the ugliest and "ugh" paedophile faces of the lot up till now. Goodness gracious me.....
Apart from the BBC, Skye News, Aljazeera, and in all probability CNN have already grasped this opportunity. Never a word about "little facts" such as those pointed out by Teresa. They have already made up their minds that the Pope was part of the cover up.
Around the globe millions have seen this by now.
BBC said he is living in a bubble, sitting in Castel Gandolfo "writing his latest book" (I thought it was finished already?) while his Church is falling apart. And that he must be a very worried man tonight. (Doesn't make sense to me: living in a bubble, scribbling a book, but in the same news report he is thought to be a very worried man, but there you have it!
Fasten your seat belts, Holy Father.
It was inevitable that the vengeful vicious folks at BBC would do what they did with selected 'clauses' in the letter taken out of context... which is why I am so incensed that no one in the Vatican Press Office could sit down to write out a translation of that five-sentence letter, which even with my rudimentary Latin reading possibility, seems to express a standard response to a 'routine' inquiry. Ineed, even Father Z notes that it was probably a boilerplate letter (though I still wish, he , too, could have translated it tout de suite... In terms of 'speed' of answering, how bad can it be that the response is dated November 6 to a letter received September 11?...
TERESA
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 10/04/2010 04:51]