| With the lightening speed of millions of mice, this magazine cover has ricocheted across the Globe -- or as the Church would tell Galileo -- "God's flat surface around which the sun revolves."
The picture depicts an ordination ceremony. (I believe "Ordination" is Latin for "breaking in the new guy"). The debate over the picture falls into several camps. Some observers are saying:
1. The PR folks for the Vermont Diocese are either pathetically stupid or they are using a pathetically stupid approach to undercut Photoshop;
while others are arguing that
2. The Catholic hierarchy is truly, pathologically, that far out of touch with both perception and reality;
and still others seem to think that
3. For decades, the political infrastructure of the Catholic Church was dominated by evil bastards who did everything in their power to protect child rapers. The timing of the picture is just one big middle finger pointed at the Vermont victims of the Church's criminal conduct -- coming only a month after settling the last of the abuse cases that the Church has covered up and dragged out for years.
I suspect it is more likely #2 rather than #3. That said, can the media arm of a large Vermont Corporation truly be this out of touch? We know the lengths to which this organization went to protect and preserve a culture of predatory criminal sexual violence against children: how can anything truly be a surprise? |
