tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32317349.post6791993734224949045..comments2024-01-06T03:07:18.023-08:00Comments on The Chindu: The villain is the VaticanHindu Fundamentalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15731102238577129533noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32317349.post-80140483069769659202010-04-27T16:04:44.091-07:002010-04-27T16:04:44.091-07:00While writing this post, I thought a few would get...While writing this post, I thought a few would get the impression that I am suggesting that this op-ed is pro-vatican. But I thought that "general liberal hostility" is inappropriate to describe the attitude towards the church.<br /><br />I dont think I am wrong when I say that chindu has given less than fair coverage of the sexual abuse crisis. From what I remember, after N.Ram's editorial, there was another article before this one. Below are some excerpts from that article. To me, that sounded outrageous.<br /><br />http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/12/stories/2010041250891300.htm<br />But the screening also comes amid a complex subplot in the sexual abuse crisis in which defenders of the Pope have sought to associate him with Pope Pius XII and have likened criticism of the Vatican's handling of the sexual abuse crisis to anti-Semitism.<br /><br />On Good Friday, the preacher of the papal household, the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, delivered a sermon in St. Peter's Square, citing a letter that he said was from a Jewish friend who had compared what he called “the violent and concentric attacks against the church” to anti-Semitism, angering both victims and Jewish groups.<br /><br />In an interview last week, the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, denounced what he called “unjust attacks” on the Pope and compared criticism of the church for its handling of sexual abuse to “the offensive against Pius XII for his actions during the last World War.”Hindu Fundamentalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15731102238577129533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32317349.post-76057489597622577412010-04-27T03:27:45.138-07:002010-04-27T03:27:45.138-07:00Seriously folks... The Hindu is the one paper that...Seriously folks... The Hindu is the one paper that has given maximum coverage to the child abuse scandal, getting foreign correspondents to go after it. And you read this op-ed as being pro-Vatican?! Either u guys didn't read it properly or u so expect The Hindu to take a pro-church line that you read that into this article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com