Tuesday, April 12

An Inquisition?

NPR's Cardinal Law Leads Vatican Mass by Sylvia Poggioli cited Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, a Honduran cardinal, as saying the fury with which the American media reported the scandal reminded him of the times of Stalin and Hitler. Funny, I would've said "witch hunt". In fact, according to Cardinal blasts US media for sex coverage By Eric J. Lyman,
The respected church leader also defended Cardinal Bernard Law, who Rodriguez Maradiaga said had been the victim of a "witch hunt" by the Boston Globe and other publications.
Witch hunts are apparently not part of what he thinks of as his church. Now why not compare the reporting of the scandal to the Inquisition?

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