Bishop says media 'unfair and unjust' on RCC handling of clerical child abuse

[JosephDeMaistre]

I regret to say I've been coming to the same conclusion myself. A case of "If you won't sing off the same hymn-sheet then shut the **** up," it would appear. It's a sad sign of things to come if this is the case, since he's one of the few in the Irish hierarchy who seems to have a genuine appreciation of how the public actually feels about these matters.

Indeed he seems to have some basic cop on and isnt prone to the blunders that can arise out of a sickly sweet smuggness. Look at his eyes though, consider the masterful putting out of mixed signals around the issue of gays. Hard not to believe that he is an operator. Pride cometh before a fall and Irish Roman Catholicism exceeded at self-satisfaction, you could almost feel sorry for the Bishops if you forget the fact of why they are in this mess. Its a very ugly sight.

At the ultimate though they should stop playing the victims as there are very reals victims in this tradegy. This messing around is adding insult to injury.

[Thekinghasnoclothes]

The Bishop is a hypocrite talking about fairness. He has been decieveing people for years praying and encourageing people to pray to a god that does not exist.

The fact that prayers are never answered when the possibility of coincidence is eliminated meshes with another fact. If we analyze God's responses to ambiguous prayers using statistical tools, what we find is that there is never any statistical evidence for prayer. In other words, when we statisically compare prayer to coincidence for explaining any situation, they are identical. For example, this article points out:
One of the most scientifically rigorous studies yet, published earlier this month, found that the prayers of a distant congregation did not reduce the major complications or death rate in patients hospitalized for heart treatments