UNITED STATES
Lez Get Real
Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on April 22, 2012
If you want to know how a war is going, do not talk to the generals. Anyone who is not in the field or just tours the front lines occasionally won’t really know how things are going. Why? Because they are not there every day. To them, the casualties are numbers and at arm’s length. When was the last time that General David Petraus held a rifle and fired at someone in the Taliban? When was the last time that Marine Commandant General John Amos did the same?
Really, don’t bother asking anyone above the rank of Captain how the war is going because they will have, at best, a fuzzy idea of how things are going, and their jobs largely depend upon not knowing if the battle on the ground is a major fuck up.
So, if you want to know just how healthy the Catholic Church is, the last person you want to talk to is the Pope. After that, you don’t want to talk Cardinals, Archbishops or bishops. Don’t bother talking to them. They don’t have a clue what is going on, and their ignorance is bliss for them because they honestly do not want to know. All they want to know is that their jobs and their positions are secure.
Thus, it is not surprising that Pope Benedict is going after the nuns. It is also not surprising to note that, as John Zogby writes at the Huffington Post, “the bishops have adopted a Nixon-like ‘circle the wagons’ defensive posture during their disgraceful ‘defend the institution at all costs’ approach to the pedophile scandal, making us wince in shame at their outrageous behavior, it was our women religious figures who held high the social gospel, in word and deed — reminding us why we could still be proud of the Catholic church and its teachings.”
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