Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Saturday, February 07, 2009

But he's the Pope!

Pope didn't know bishop had denied Holocaust: Vatican

Sure, he's not omniscient, but he has to have enough people around him to know all this stuff ahead of time. The various Vatican offices are known for their thoroughness.

3 comments:

Polaris said...

" The various Vatican offices are known for their thoroughness. "


Unless it suits them not to be.

Cynical as ever......

James said...

Though I'm not sure why it would suit them not to be in this case unless they wish to embarrass the Pope. But then, given Vatican intrigues of the past, I wouldn't be surprised...

James said...

My cynicism matches your cynicism and raises you one...
:-)