Pope Smear? Yes, according to the Vatican, and an "ignoble attempt" at that

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Vatican says media in "ignoble attempt" to smear pope

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100325/ts_nm/us_pope_abuse



VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Thursday angrily attacked the media over its reporting of sexual abuse of children by priests, saying there was an "ignoble attempt" to smear Pope Benedict "at any cost."

The editorial in a Vatican newspaper came on a day abuse victims protested near St Peter's Square to demand the pope open files on pedophile clerics and defrock "predator priests," and a cardinal spoke of a "conspiracy" against the church.

"The prevalent tendency in the media is to ignore the facts and stretch interpretations with the aim of spreading the picture of the Catholic Church as the only one responsible for sexual abuse, something which does not correspond to reality," the Vatican newspaper said.

There was "clearly an ignoble attempt to strike at Pope Benedict and his closest aides at any cost," it said.

The editorial challenged a New York Times report about the case of Rev. Lawrence Murphy, accused of sexually abusing up to 200 deaf boys in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s.

[Lyric]

1. Criminals always claim that they're being smeared and slandered.

Blah blah blah.

[DJ13]

2. What kind of doctor gives people a Pope smear?

[Historic NY]

4. Bwah...........I thought the same thing

[undeterred]

6. A Vatican Manginacologist

Any of several bodily fluids taken from the Pope to make sure all is well with the Holy Father's naughty bits. Usually collected by a Vatican Manginacologist, the samples are checked for disease and and then sent to the FBI for DNA comparison in ongoing kid diddler investigations.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Papal%20Smear

[Betty Karlson]

3. The pope is a blasphemous abomination unto God

who makes ingnoble attempts at covering up for those sexual predators.

At this point, I need to restrain myself from smearing the pope with a theory about the RC perception of sex, and how that is related to ther ungodly discrimination of loving and committed same-sex couples.

May God forgive him, for I won't.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. open your records, let us judge 'the facts'. Cardinal Mahoney in LA fought like heck

to keep records locked up