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Dwelling crankily – Quote of the Day (13)

cross Now the organizers of the catholic World Youth Day in Australia just wanted a happy celebration with hundreds of thousands of beautiful young people reveling in their phantasies, and then a father of two abuse victims – one of his two daughters apparently killed herself earlier this year, the other is addicted to alcohol – and brings up these old stories again. Isn’t he ashamed!?

At least that’s what the organizing bishop Anthony Fisher may have thought – seriously, unlike my sentence above:

“Happily, I think most of Australia was enjoying delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people and the hope – the hope for us doing these sorts of things better in the future – as we saw last night, rather than, than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds.”
(source: ABC News)

And the Papa-Ratzi apparently doesn’t want to meet with abuse victims, tight schedule and stuff. But even if he’ll meet them privately anyway: The way the catholic authorities are dealing with “these sorts of things” certainly has room for improvements…

» More at ABC News, Daily Telegraph.

Links of the Week (2008/28)

  • German: Der Wissenschaft verpflichtet (Committed to science) – Speech at the German society for internal medicine’s congress in 1997 about scientific medicine and paramedicine. Worth reading if you speak German, but the background color should be forbidden1… (via EsoBlog).
  • PZ Myers about the questionable reactions on “holding a consecrated wafer hostage” – and reactions from readers.
  • 50 remarkable nature wallpapers (via Blogwiese)
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