{"id":4246,"date":"2010-03-31T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/the-modo-blitzkrieg-continues.html"},"modified":"2010-03-31T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:40:34","slug":"the-modo-blitzkrieg-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/03\/the-modo-blitzkrieg-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"The MoDo blitzkrieg continues"},"content":{"rendered":"
“It doesn’t seem right that the Catholic Church is spending Holy Week practicing the unholy art of spin.
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\nComplete with crown-of-thorns imagery, the church has started an Easter public relations blitz defending a pope who went along with the perverse culture of protecting molesters and the church’s reputation rather than abused — and sometimes disabled and disadvantaged — children.<\/p>\n

The church gave up its credibility for Lent. Holy Thursday and Good Friday are now becoming Cover-Up Thursday and Blame-Others Friday.<\/p>\n

This week of special confessions and penance services is unfolding as the pope resists pressure from Catholics around the globe for his own confession and penance about the cascade of child sexual abuse cases that were ignored, even by a German diocese and Vatican office he ran.<\/p>\n

If church fund-raising and contributions dry up, Benedict’s P.R. handlers may yet have to stage a photo-op where he steps out of the priest’s side of the confessional and enters the side where the rest of his fallible flock goes.<\/p>\n

Or maybe 30-second spots defending the pope with Benedict’s voice intoning at the end: ‘I am infallible, and I approve this message.'”<\/p>\n

\n— Maureen Dowd,<\/a> Spy Wednesday, 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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