In today's Sunday Telegraph, Jonathan Wynne-Jones had a scoop with the story of the memo drawn up by Foreign Office officials after a "brainstorming session." (See: Ministers apologise for insult to Pope) Above is the scan that he posted containing the most offensive part of the memo.
Damian Thompson has pointed out that for all the frantic apologising that has gone on today, the document reflects an attitude that is widespread in our politically correct government.
The official concerned has been told that the memo was "a serious error of judgement". He has apparently "accepted this view". In the light of the obvious sincerity of this Damascene conversion, he has been "moved to other duties".
Foreign Secretary David Milliband goes further to say that the failure of judgement was "colossal". Failure of judgement? In what precisely? To put forward those ideas in the first place, to put them down on a memo, to circulate the memo, or to allow it to leak to a journalist?
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What I find most worrying is that these idiots are employed at public expense...
In my view, it's exactly the same as an enterprising barrister making a completely "over the top" statement in court to the jury, and the judge then telling the jury to "disregard what you have just heard !!! The damage has been done; the barrister has got his point across; and, presumably, everybody tries to outdo everybody else by increasingly raising the level of "apology" The ultimate apology, of course, is to have somebody (presumably a government Minister) going to a Catholic priest to make a good confession. Highly unlikely. Sorry, Mr Government Minister, I don't believe a word you've said. What has been said is COMPLETELY in keeping with this Government's policy and attitude to the Catholic religion. [Please note the complete absence of same rhetoric to extreme fundamentalist other "faiths".]
Now more so than ever we must unite and pray for our pope. It may seem basic, but here is an open invitation to everyone to join in a novena prayer to St. Benedict for our pope.
http://badthingshappenifgoodpeopledonothing.blogspot.com/2010/04/join-us-in-storming-heaven-for-our-pope.html
But that said, i think Valero took the best approach.
Exactly. Half the ideas on there are good ideas (like AIDs clinics [no contraceptives obv] and firing dodgy bishops) and the other half are ideas that the secularists think are good ideas.
So essentially they're apologising for what is half objectively good and half what they deem to be good. In short: what they deem to be a wholly good list.
Nonsense.
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When Joyce became Hitler's best-known English language propaganda broadcaster in 1939, the nickname 'Lord Haw-Haw' became his very own.
Did the worst of English language propaganda broadcasting end with the execution of Lord Haw-Haw on 3rd January 1946 at Wandsworth Prison?
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The failure of judgment was to even think in such terms.
An important point to bear in mind, also, Father (and something which really doesn't seem to have been picked-up on elsewhere) is that (unless my deconstruction of the events timeline is mistaken) this litany of anti-Catholic venom was actually drafted PRIOR to the recent media furore concerning the sex abuse scandals.
According to the original Sunday Telegraph story which exposed this puerility, the offending missive "was attached as one of three 'background documents' to a memo dated March 5 inviting officials to attend a meeting to discuss themes for the papal visit".
Implicit within this packaged memo was that the list had originally been (de)formed during an earlier brainstorming session (one of those hideously PC and 'right-on' events - purportedly screeching equality - 'where no idea is a stupid idea and everything merits its own special sticky Post-It note on the big flip chart' and must, accordingly, be recorded in the 'session output' lest the 'contributor' be offended to see their 'input' has been discarded).
Therefore, the brainstorming session which spewed this bile forth had to have taken place prior to March 5th.
By my reckoning, the recent sustained attack on His Holiness began exactly a week later on Friday March 12th with the publication in the New York Times of the 'Munich case' article.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/f0000551.shtml
Whilst I concede that sharp-eyed observers were well aware (from March 17th) that His Holiness would finally sign his summary statement on the Irish case on March 19th and that, as such, that particular matter had already been an intermittent headline issue during the late winter period, there was nothing like the current climate of anti-Catholic rhetoric, now so overtly apparent, in evidence prior to March 5th (or even earlier, depending on when, exactly, the 'brain-storming' session occurred).
Only since the NYT tilted erroneously at the Holy See on March 12th in the shape of the Munich case have we gone on to endure the open-season attacks we are now witnessing (which some 'very senior', very media-savvy Catholic clergymen are still, incredibly, in denial about).
If my timeline forensics are correct, then, and the 'Ideal Visit Memo' actually pre-dated the recent wholesale invective, then one can only wonder what type of document would have emerged from the FCO had it held its brainless session today!
I have heard from the horses mouth so to speak that the offical who wrote this particular "memo" is in fact muslim by creed, hence the foreign office's desire to make it all go away and conceal his identity!
If the memo had been in a similar vein before the State visit of a Muslim President I bet the official's career at the FO would now be over
I suspect that the official who thought he was being "oh so clever" IS surprised and distressed that among those he thinks are of the same mind, there is one who is NOT. And I expect he is trying to find out who ratted him out to the press and "get even" with him or her.
I further suspect the only thing he is "sorry" about is getting caught.
I love the "Dialogue with the CofE" one. In other words, they could have left off all the other ones and just said "compromise your faith.
What would be the point of a "catholic" school made to be open "to all." Essentially take "Catholic" out of the equasion all together.
It says a lot that they think women aren't equal if the church is not allowing them to kill their own babies without a word of admonition.
"Sexual liberation" for women -- in the way THESE officials mean it -- is their way of letting MEN get off scot-free with no responsibilies along with the pleasure. Perpetual juveniles -- all "fun" ESPECIALLY for men -- and no true security for women.
A ring on the finger and mutually accepting and working to a couple's true home in heaven by grace of God is to be replaced, according to these officials, by a tossed condom and eventually an offer to pay for half of the cost of an abortion.
Not good enough. They are the LEAST liberated of people. You don't tie a diamond to the end of a filthy string and pull it through the mud and get away with calling cheap thrills "wonderful."
I'm not sure about your man Mulvain being a muslim. I gather "drinking a lot" is one of his favourite pastimes. I think none of the muslims I know would admit to that.
I think an attempt to pass this off as a childish prank is naive. In an "old boy network" like the Foreign Office, this would not be done by a junior civil servent, without a nod from above.
In my opinion, it was a deliberate attempt to embarrass the Papacy and person of Pope Benedict and send a message to the Vatican concerning the planned Papal visit to the United Kingdom.
Last night U.K. media said the cancellation of the visit was being considered by the Vatican.
The Pope will not be blessing any abortion clinics, officiating at any same-sex 'marriages' or distributing condoms when he visits Britain. However, last week the Bishops of England and Wales gave a job to an MP who actively supports all of the above and who doesn't not want parents to be able to help their minor children in serious trouble. The bishop who gave the anti-life, anti-family politician the job found the FO document, which will have no effect whatever, 'appalling'.
Winston Churchill is reputed to have said to a young Tory MP who pointed to the opposition benches and said 'There's the enemy', 'No, young man, that's the opposition. The enemy is behind you'.
A juvenile prank by a junior civil servant cannot harm the Church. The appointment by the hierarchy of an anti-life 'Catholic' to a job in which he represents the Church in England and Wales is devastating. It also makes the bishops' 'apology' last week for child abuse by priests an empty and cynical document. Abortion is the ultimate form of child abuse.
Who is really insulting Pope Benedict and the Catholics of England and Wales, not to mention faithful, struggling Catholics in the rest of the world? The culprits are not in the FO.
@ Simon Platt, you are quite right in your assumption that Mulvain is not a muslim, he is merely a convenient scapegoat. The person to whom I was referring is the "more senior civil servant" contained in the following quote "It is believed that Mr Mulvain, who lives in East London, escaped punishment because he was given authorisation to send the memo by a more senior civil servant, who has since been 'transferred to other duties'.
Mr Mulvain is a pawn in the foreign office's damage limitation exercise, I mean can you imagine the furore if it were revealed that the author was both senior and muslim!?
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