rash judgment
By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | May 11, 2010
In submitting my nomination for the stupidest headline of the month, I acted too soon.
Just minutes after posting that item, I saw a new report from the inimitable Ruth Gledhill of the London Times:
Pope's move on abuse mirrors lead taken by English and Welsh bishops
The Pope's "recognition of the gravity of the problems facing the Church," Gledhill tells her readers, is a "significant change."
Until today, you see, the man who spoke in 2005 about the "filth" in the Church-- the man whose blunt assessment of the crisis in Catholicism made The Ratzinger Report a sensation in the 1980s-- hadn't recognized the gravity of the problems. Then the bishops of England and Wales enlightened him.
Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.
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