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Mohammed’s (cartoon) Radio

I’ve wanted to comment on the whole Mohammed cartoon issue for about a week. Thankfully I kept quiet because there has been tons of good commentary about the issue all over the blogsphere.

I really appreciate Fr. Marin Fox’s take in his article Those Mohammed Cartoons found at Bonfire of the Vanities. This is the closest to my thinking, especially as regards republishing said cartoons.

The BLOGCORNER Preacher hits the nail on the head in regard to the inconsistencies, hypocrisy, idolatry, and errors found in Islam.

blogs4God has a great article, First the Muslims came for the Cartoonists.

In short, and in my opinion, this is a battle of cultures and civilizations. The Moslems see it as such.

Unfortunately, we in the West have that overwhelming desire to placate them, think the best, until (we hope) they see things our way. As blogs4God says. —Appeasement for a false peace is always a recipe for disaster.—

This is not a management situation where we have to deal with a difficult employee. This is not a child rearing operation, where we have to be patient and guiding. This is the reality of differing perspectives on the value of life, freedom, self determination, etc. etc. These are deep seated cultural values. Just because some in the West have given up on their foundational values does not mean the rest of the world will.

Our culture and our freedoms come from somewhere. They come from a proper understanding of humanity founded in Judeo-Christian scripture. Our civilization and structures are founded on that proper thinking. This is why the word ‘society’ has deep philosophical meanings beyond the dictionary definition.

There is no ‘our God is bigger than your God’ argument. Our God is God. Their prophet is not. Their prophet is, well many things, but not a prophet of God. The prophet deal ended when Jesus Christ, true God and true man offered Himself for the redemption of the whole world. How can you expound any more on God’s Word?

Now, I will take this opportunity to engage is some re-working of Warren Zevon tunes:

Roland the Headless Cartoonist

Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a cartoon for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Arabia to join the bloody fray

Moslems of London

They’re the hairy headed gents who run amuck in Kent,
Lately they’ve been overheard in Mayfair.
You better stay away from them,
They’ll blow your head off, Jim,
The Moslems of London.

Ahhwooooo… Moslems of London, Ahwooooo!
Ahhwooooo… Moslems of London, Ahwooooo! Huh!

Mohammed’s Radio

The Moslems are restless and they’ve got no place to go
Someone’s always trying to tell them
Something they already know
So their anger and resentment flow

But don’t it make you want to blow up people
All night long
Mohammed’s Radio
I heard somebody calling from the Mosque
On the radio, Mohammed’s Radio

You know, Hamas has got their problems too
They will surely take them out on you
In walked the village idiot and his bomb was all aglow
He’d been up all night listening to Mohammed’s Radio

But don’t it make you want to blow up people
All night long
Mohammed’s Radio
I heard somebody calling from the Mosque
On the radio, Mohammed’s Radio

You’ve been up all night listening for his drum
Hoping that the righteous might just might just might just come
I heard the General whisper to his aide-de-camp
“Be watchful for Mohammed’s lamp”

But don’t it make you want to blow up people
All night long, Mohammed’s Radio

With my sincerest apologizes to the late, great Warren Zevon.

Current Events, Media

[Roman Catholic] Hospitals criticized

From an article in the Albany NY Times Union:

Study: Hospital care fails women

Catholic facilities deny access to emergency contraception, health group’s survey finds by Michele Morgan Bolton, Staff writer

ALBANY — Results of a national survey released Thursday say Catholic hospitals in New York routinely deny mandated access to emergency contraception to women, including victims of sexual assault.

The concentrated dose of oral contraceptives or “morning after” pills protect against pregnancy up to 120 hours after intercourse, by inhibiting ovulation and fertilization. It is not to be confused with the abortion pill, RU-486.

The study by Washington, D.C.-based Catholics for A Free Choice, a women’s health care advocacy group, said staff at 94 facilities in New York, California, South Carolina and Washington said no such emergency contraceptive treatment is available at their hospital 35 percent of the time.

Boy, that’s a misnomer… Catholics for A Free Choice is a pro abortion, pro murder, and pro homosexual group. Healthcare is the furthest thing from their mission. For an expose of the organization see The Catholic Leagues primer on the group: The Real Agenda of Catholics For A Free Choice.

While 7 percent in the overall study said emergency contraception is available upon request for all women, another 20 percent of respondents either tried to evade the calls, hung up on the callers or, at times, scolded them, according to the poll.

“The results were mixed at best, and devastating at worst,” said Catholics for a Free Choice president Frances Kissling. “Women of many different religions seek emergency care at Catholic hospitals, in part, because of their reputation for compassionate, quality care. That the Catholic hospitals we surveyed would turn women away in their time of need … is not only a violation of the law, it is a violation of their mission.”

Dennis Poust, a spokesman for the Catholic Conference of New York State, said he was unaware of any sexual assault victims who have come forward and said they’ve been denied services.

“Until they do? I’m not going to take this seriously,” he said. “They’re not a Catholic organization. Their mission is to undermine the church.”

I would agree.

Now, do not get me wrong. My Church has a different attitude toward marriage and the place of procreation in marriage. We see no impediment to the use of non-abortive contraception within the context of marriage.

The real issue here is the finger pointing that will lead to forced compliance with an unjust law. Does anyone, except these fringe groups, want this war?

The simple fact is that Roman Catholic Hospitals are indeed that, Roman Catholic. What do these people expect? These institutions, along with colleges, orphanages, and other social benefit agencies were founded, and still exist, as a major part of the world’s health care and human services milieu.

While some institutions, like some formerly Roman Catholic colleges, might very easily give up their values and teachings in then face of the —Law— or —social trends—, the tendency in the past 5-10 years, to impose legal obligations, contrary to the faith and morals of Roman Catholic institutions, and to impose them on those institution, is completely un-American.

You can see this in the recent Boston scandal concerning Catholic Charities —legal— obligation to provide adoption services to homosexuals. You can see this in New York State laws forcing the provision of health insurance covering contraception on Roman Catholic institutions.

Imposing obligations of this type is completely contrary to American legal tradition. In fact, I look at it as one of those slippery slopes.

Some of the things that make me shake my head:

The ‘duh’ factor. How do the finger pointers and lawmakers expect these institutions to act? In compliance with laws that are gravely against their teachings and values? How about a law that forces everyone to eat pork on Friday night?

Legislators with agendas will quickly find that their methods, when adopted by people opposed to their point of view, will bring greater harm to themselves and the greater public good.

State governments and indeed the United States as a whole cannot provide adequate education for children, adequate nutrition, adequate health care, and other basic needs. Sure legislators struggle with this and many desire what is best. Isn’t it then counterintuitive to push those doing the work, walking the walk, into dilemmas. It adds to the prevailing antagonism in society.

Maybe lawmakers first question should be – can we fund an across-the-board replacement of services provided by Roman Catholic institutions? I think not.

From my point-of-view, if nominal Roman Catholic institutions wish to be secular, ok, get rid of the name, wash out the tradition, and convert yourselves to a secular agency. Follow the —Law—. On the other hand, those Roman Catholic organizations and Religious Orders that run institutions, hospitals, and colleges should get in line with the Church’s teaching and make a stand.

Standing in the face of injustice and nut case organizations like CFFC will do more to protect everyone (including the rights of CFFC) than a go along to get along attitude.

Current Events

Temple of Moloch nearly complete —“ Saints being added

The EC-USA —“ Diocese of Washington has voted to begin the process of making Thurgood Marshall, former Supreme Court Justice, a saint. Yes this is real and is posted at the Diocese of Washington website.

WASHINGTON , D.C. —“ Deputies to the Episcopal Diocese of Washington’s 111 th annual convention voted Friday to ask the 2006 General Convention of the Episcopal Church to include the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the church’s book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts.

From the Marshall wiki:

His most frequent ally on the Court (indeed, the pair rarely voted at odds) was Justice William Brennan, who consistently joined him in supporting abortion…

Indeed, Marshall concurred with the majority in Roe v. Wade.

As soon as Gene Robinson is added to the list of saints the temple will be complete.

Current Events, Media

NBC to mock Christians and the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ!

Think the Book of Daniel was not amoral enough? This time NBC will mock Jesus Crucified as well.

Britney Spears is set to appear in NBC’s Will & Grace. She will portray a Christian conservative sidekick to Jack on his show on —Out TV— – “Jack Talk”

The plot (yeah right) involves the sale of “Out TV” to a Christian Television Network, and Spears is brought on to be Jack’s new religious co-host (like that would happen —“ I would think Jack would be but a distant bad memory).

Allegedly Will and Jack loosen her up —“ hey it’s easy to throw out Christian convictions in the face of homosexual “””truth””” —“ right?

Spears brings her own additions to the talk show when she decides to do a cooking segment called “Cruci-fixin’s.”

See more here.

Current Events, Media, Perspective

A Very Busy News Day

Go, Go, Alito…

On the Alito Confirmation, the following was found in a Reuters article:

Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said, “I must say that I wish the president was in a position to do more than claim a partisan victory tonight.”

“The union would be better and stronger and more unified if we were confirming a different nominee, a nominee who could have united us more than divided us,” Schumer said.

The honorable Senator must have downed twelve Manhattans at lunch. Or perhaps there was something odd in his hookah pipe? Senator, the nation is divided and issues of life and the culture of death are at the root of the division.

Where we are lucky as a country is in our freedom to express ourselves. The consistent message for life has taken root. People do not want abortion, euthanasia, babies killed to produce stem cells that do … well nothing.

You should well know that your own actions and rhetoric are divisive. Perhaps New York State needs a different nominee for Senator?

Insights into the Motivators for Abortion:

Report: 8 Million Born With Birth Defects Annually by Lauran Neergaard of the AP.

Ms. Neergaard writes:

“Most people think of birth defects as something that is not preventable,” said Dr. Jose Cordero, the U.S. assistant surgeon general and birth defects chief at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There are great opportunities to ensure that babies are born healthy.”

A good opening, but now it gets worse:

About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age five in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says.

Now this is a bold statement, meant more to elicit the idea —“ well if they are going to die anyway —“ why not abort them? You have to read down to get the statistics.

Unfortunately the statistics are unclear at best. They do not specifically address which of these children dies when. How many born in a year die that same year? If you took the statistics reported and if you drew a huge generalization from them you might say that 42.3077% die in a year, but you would be wrong.

Most birth defects occur in poor countries, where babies can languish with problems easily fixed or even prevented in wealthier nations, according to research released Monday by the organization.

Again, leading —“ look they are languishing, why not abort them? They are also poor and languishing. Hey, nobody wants to see that, right?

However, the researchers said some innovative programs in Iran and Chile show that effective preventions don’t have to be costly.

Preventable Defects

Indeed, about 70 percent of birth defects could be prevented, repaired or ameliorated, they concluded.

Now at least they are talking about doing something useful. Prevention, good heath care, it goes on. This is indeed good and worthy. We can all agree to support that.

What they fail to discuss is the other 30% of these lives. What about their lives? What can we do to improve their lives, care for them, and provide them with nurturing and a commitment to their lives? How can we assist their parents and train their parents and the world that this is not a problem, but a blessing?

“We were surprised by the toll,” said epidemiologist Christopher Howson with the March of Dimes, which sponsored the five-year project after doctors complained that birth defects often are ignored as a public health problem.

“It’s like the tip of an iceberg that is rising out of the ocean” — noticed only after infant mortality from other causes drops, he said.

Specialists said the report focuses much-needed attention on a concern of every parent-to-be.

“Most people think of birth defects as something that is not preventable,” said Dr. Jose Cordero, the U.S. assistant surgeon general and birth defects chief at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There are great opportunities to ensure that babies are born healthy.”

Some 7.9 million children a year are born with serious birth defects caused at least partly by genetic flaws such as heart defects, spina bifida and other neural tube defects, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome.

Undoubtedly hundreds of thousands more are born with defects caused not by genes but by post-conception problems: mothers infected with rubella or syphilis, which can damage their babies’ brains; certain medications or alcohol; lack of dietary iodine. Too few countries count those defects for a good estimate.

Millions Die

At least 3.3 million children under age five die each year because of birth defects, and millions more are mentally or physically disabled.

Prevalence ranges from a high of 82 defects per 1,000 live births in Sudan to a low of 39.7 per 1,000 in France. The researchers cautioned that the data aren’t precise enough for detailed country-by-country comparisons, but they cited poor maternal health care, a higher percentage of older mothers and greater frequency of marriage between relatives as leading risks in low- and middle-income countries.

Additionally, populations from Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia are most at risk of the common inherited diseases thalassemia, sickle cell and the metabolic disease G6PD. Those regions are less likely to offer genetic testing that reveals at-risk couples.

The report takes no stand on abortion, but it found that Down syndrome is roughly twice as common in poorer countries — which typically lack prenatal testing — while half of affected pregnancies in Western Europe are terminated following prenatal diagnosis.

A stand without a stand! Look, the rich western nations know how to do it. The westerners get it right. No languishing, dirt poor, disabled kids in our culture. NIMBY! Even the languishing poor can read between these lines.

Every mother-to-be has about a 5 percent chance of having a baby with a serious birth defect, the so-called “background rate,” explained Dr. Arnold Christianson of South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand, who co-wrote the report.

Lowering Risk

That risk can rise or fall, depending on a host of circumstances: Does she take folic acid, a nutritional supplement that fights neural tube defects? Is she vaccinated against rubella? Does she have uncontrolled diabetes or other pregnancy-harming illnesses? Is she well-nourished? Are her pregnancies spaced far enough apart?

“If mom can be as fit and well as possible at the time of conception, it reduces the risk of a birth defect,” Christianson said.

Among the report’s recommendations:

Improved health care for all women, with special emphasis on pregnancy nutrition.

Improved family planning and birth-defect education. In Johannesburg, surveys show less than 40 percent of African women know what Down syndrome is — much less that their risk rises with pregnancies after age 35, Christianson said.

Here’s that stand for the culture of death —“ improved family planning. Once those South African women are ‘educated’ they can make the right choice. A child who is not perfect is a burden so kill it. It’s OK, they are going to die anyway.

Proper care of affected babies. In South America, for example, 55 percent of babies with Down syndrome die before their first birthday. Median U.S. survival is age 51, up from age 3 in the 1960s thanks to improved care.

“Care is an absolute,” Howson said. “Prevention is the ideal.”

Yes, and how about proper care of, and acceptance of, all life?

Furthermore, prevention can be cheap: Fortifying grain with folic acid costs about a penny per year per person, Cordero said.

In 2000, Chile added enough folic acid to wheat flour to cause a 40 percent reduction in neural tube defects. The U.S., with lower fortification levels, saw a one-third drop.

Even gene tests can be relatively inexpensive. The report cites Iran which, faced with skyrocketing costs for thalassemia care, in 1997 began giving couples a US$5 gene test prior to marriage. Some separate if both carry the disease-causing gene, but they also can opt for fetal testing if they choose to conceive. By 2001, more than 2.7 million prospective couples had been screened, 10,298 at-risk couples identified and counseled — and thalassemia births had fallen to 30 percent of the expected rate.

Yes, they were ‘counseled’ all right, and the children are no more. The death toll is still the same, they just did the killing earlier.

What absolutely amazes me about this drivel is that the article’s author and those doing the study advocate death as an answer to — death. It’s not out front, but it is surely there. The part that they forget is that we are all going to die. Why is your life more precious than these?

My wife and I had our children relatively late. Because of several factors there was a chance, which one doctor deemed to be significant, that they might have birth defects. And you know what? We ignored their advice. We ignored their tests. God was blessing us with a child and we accepted that blessing regardless of the possibility of physical, mental, or emotional difficulties for that child. God had given us the blessing. A moment of love and union. God gave us the opportunity to express our love and to cooperate in bringing about a new life.

Each child is blessed in the gifts that they offer all of humanity. The weakness of some calls us to reflect on our duty not to worldly perfection, but to the Christ in all. The glory of the cross is in the beauty and blessing that flow from it.

We were blessed that we have perfectly healthy children. Nevertheless, it made no difference —“ for it is human life and the most precious gift in God’s creation,

—I know what you are thinking. You need a sign. What better one could I give than to make this little one whole and new? I could do it; but I will not. I am the Lord and not a conjuror. I gave this mite a gift I denied to all of you-eternal innocence. To you she looks imperfect – but to me she is flawless, like the bud that dies unopened. She will never offend me, as all of you have done. She will never pervert or destroy the work of my Father’s hands. She is necessary to you. She will evoke the kindness that will keep you human. Her infirmity will prompt you to gratitude for your own good fortune…More! She will remind you everyday that I am who I am, that my ways are not yours, and that the smallest dust mote whirled in the darkest space does not fall out of my hand…I have chosen you. You have not chosen me. This little one is my sign to you. Treasure her!—

From: The Clowns of God by Morris West

Current Events, Poland - Polish - Polonia

Please pray with me – At Least 66 Killed in Poland Roof Collapse

KATOWICE, Poland – The snow-covered roof of a convention hall in southern Poland collapsed Saturday with as many as 500 people inside for a racing pigeon exhibition, killing at least 32 60 66 people and injuring at least 141 160.

A priest outside the building’s entrance prayed over the bodies of an adult and a child covered by a blanket and a tarp, as rescue crews and search dogs worked frantically through the night in subfreezing temperatures to save those trapped inside.

More from the AP here…

Please pray along with me:

O Lord God, Father of Mercy, grant calmness and control of thought to those who are facing uncertainty and anxiety; let their hearts stand fast, believing in the Lord. Be Thou all things to all men, knowing each one and his petition, each house and its need. For the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen

O Merciful God, Father of the Crucified Christ! In every sorrow which awaits us may we look up to You without doubt or fear, persuaded that Your mercy is ever sure. You cannot fail us. There is no place or time where You are not. Uphold us in our grief and sorrow, and in our darkness visit us with Your light. We are Yours; help us we beg You, in life and in death to feel that we are Yours. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Current Events, Poland - Polish - Polonia

They have insulted the pierogi and us!

U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington state can feel free to cheer for her team, and cow-tow politically even if she hates sports. She was noted in the press as ‘talking up a Seahawk-blue streak’ recently.

Unfortunately, she is politically stupid, besides being a liberal and elitist boob.

When you insult the food Mama and Busha made with loving hands in the homes of us Poles, Russians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russian, Slovaks, and Czechs, you insult many of your constituents, a large number of Americans, and the happy memories of many families. You insult a food that evokes those memories. You also insult the working class folks you love to tax to death with your agenda.

It has been said that the senses of taste and smell are the most powerful because they connect us in a unique and intimate way to the precious moments in our lives. I still long for those warm moments of helping my Busha (grandma) make pierogi.

In an article at seatlepi.com discussing the typical Super Bowl bet the following appeared:

[Senators] Murray and Cantwell have bet Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum that the Hawks will win. If they’re right, the payoff will be a pile of Clara’s Pittsburgh Pierogies and hot wings. Pierogies are basically an Eastern Europe type of filled ravioli popular in a gritty Rust Belt city that will remain anonymous.

…

Murray’s office was less than impressed. “It’s so lame,” spokeswoman Alex Glass said, possibly with pierogi in cheek. “They know they’re going to lose so they know better than (to) offer anything good.”

So therefore, I call on all pierogi loving Americans to eat a big bunch of the best food on earth – pierogi – on Super Bowl Sunday (after Holy Mass of course).

I also call on the Canadian Village of Glendon, Alberta, home of the ‘World’s Largest Pyrogy’ to invade the State of Washington. The liberal elites will quickly capitulate, after which you can force them to eat pierogi, and then return to your peaceful existence.

Also, you may want to check out the blogs4God post on this. The pierogis pictured there look great – can I come over?

Current Events, Media

The Lion, the Witch, and get those Christians away from me…

An excellent article from Spike.

Check out: The curious rise of anti-religious hysteria It is the Anglo-American cultural elites’ insecurity about their own values that encourages their frenzied attacks on religion.

This article by Frank Furedi, self described as “a secular humanist who is instinctively uncomfortable with zealot-like moralism” really makes some salient points about cultural elitism and its venomous anti-Christian mantra.

Mr. Furedi is the author of Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right.

Since I’ve been in the mood for good Catholic/Christian films I recently purchased Come to the Stable and The Miracle of the Bells. Both arrived today so I’ll be sitting down to watch them tonight.

Miracle of the Bells is among my all time favorites.

A beautiful young Polish woman from a poor coal mining town in Pennsylvania makes it to Hollywood. She is screen tested and chosen as the lead in Joan of Arc. Her Catholic faith and purity shine through. At the conclusion of the production she dies of black lung disease.

Her manager, who loves her, played by Fred MacMurray, brings her body back to Pennsylvania. Her last wish was that the church bells be rung for her at her funeral. Concurrently he finds out that the film she made is going to be canned. Frank Sinatra plays the young parish priest —“ a fine looking Polish boy if I don’t say so myself!

The movie is sad and glorious. It shows the power of miracles of the heart and the power of dedicated love. On a secondary level it is an ode to all those who are poor, work hard, have deep faith, and are far more complex than the elites would have us believe.

As the IMDB says:

This film was also made in the days of John L. Lewis as head of the United Mine Workers. One of the big issues for that union was the pollution that caused the premature deaths of a lot of their members and families. In that sense Miracle of the Bells was a very socially relevant movie for its time and even today.

I think we can all agree with that. If you’ve never seen it check it out. If you have watch it again.

Current Events

I’m Going to be Sick—¦

It is all over the blogsphere and the net… Michael Schiavo is remarried.

Now you would not expect that from the world’s most selfish man (marriage, commitment, etc.) but get this, he’s remarried, to his long time live in ‘lover’, the well know and public adulteress Jodi Centonze, in a Roman Catholic Church ceremony!

I guess she wanted to make her family proud.

Here’s Michael Schiavo professing his vows:

Evil Mike

Oops, he let something slip…

It looks like the gates of hell are now located somewhere within the chancery halls of the St. Petersburg, Florida Roman Catholic diocese.

Among the comments I’ve seen:

From Stuck on Stupid

Michael Schiavo married his long time concubine a mere ten months after his legitimate wife’s death.

Mikey’s new wife better be sure that her life insurance is in a trust fund for someone other than her husband.

From Politik Ditto

Michael Schiavo, Noted Adulterer, Gets Re-Married

No word yet on whether or not the marriage vows included an addendum citing that if the bride were to unfortunately get into an accident that landed her in a vegetative state, that all bets would immediately be called off, like yunno, all that petty “for better or worse . . . in sickness or health” stuff.

From the Justice for Terri Schiavo site:

Terri Schiavo had to die in order for Michael Schiavo to make a mockery of traditional marriage vows for a second time.

From Thrown Back:

“The priest offered no homily”. Well, what could the priest say? “Don’t kill this one, Michael”?

I like this one.

From the St. Petersburgh Times:

“Except for the fact that the world knows their name, it was like any wedding you’ve ever been to,” said Michael Hirsh, who attended, and who is helping Michael Schiavo write a book.

Mr. Hirsh, it is not supposed to be like any other wedding, it is supposed to be a sacrament. Marriage in any truly Catholic Church is supposed to be holy. So I ask, why did they do it? Why be so evil? Go to the courts; get a judge or justice of the peace.

These people are sick across the board. They are also hypocrites.

Hey, Bishop Lynch (Bishop of St. Petersburg – his name is appropriate no?)

The adulterous couple you allowed to marry in your diocese:

  • Are both divorced;
  • Are the parents of two illegitimate children;
  • Have lived together in a public adulterous relationship for over 10 years, right up to the day of marriage;
  • Refused a Catholic funeral to a lifelong Catholic (Terri Schiavo)

But this is nothing for a bishop who:

  • Eliminates Eucharistic adoration across the diocese
  • Equates the —people of the Church— to Jesus Christ in the Eucharist
  • Pays over $100,000 to quiet an abuse allegation against him
  • Paid $25 million in no-bid construction contracts to a buddy of his
  • Stayed silent on the whole Schiavo situation, did not follow the directives of his superiors, and went on vacation while she died.
  • Will probably pay out millions in abuse settlements
  • Is the Chairman of Catholic Relief Services – I’ll not be donating thank you.

If I were Roman Catholic I would be deeply embarrassed that this Bishop never met a scandal he couldn’t help but be involved in. He must be accident prone (or just stupid). Dante was right, hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.

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