Congratulations, Suzanne. What a little pumpkin! Life is good, it is very good. Prayers for baby, mum and dad.

You said: Leave aside your ideological blinkers and try to think outside the socialist box. Only then will you really understand the nature of the controversy. You think it's about some great big right-wing conspiracy to oppress the poor and the marginalized.

Wholeheartedly agree. Thing is, these people value their po$ition$ and pre$tige over and above everything else. They feel valueless without them. To D+P members, Catholic morality is like an ornament for show, exuding an aura of legitimacy, so as to gain respectability within NGO-circles and "the right people". This whole "social justice" psychology is like a disease that has festered for decades. Disregarding "the biological solution", I see that a "shock to the system" is the only way to rid the corruption (e.g. an external action from Rome). I am still thinking about an insider whistle-blower type scenario, though it's low on the probability scale.

I wish someone in Development and Peace would actually speaks to the allegations and the evidence.

Don't think that is going to happen. Their livelihoods are at stake and they are so far away from any modicum Catholic sensibility. To directly face facts would be devastating for these people. We're talking decades of a "this world" mentality where Catholic morals/doctrine is a kind of ornament to be "oooooo'd and aawwwed" at when it does not directly impact their lives in a personal way. I have been mulling over the possibility of an insider-whistle-blower over the last few months. This, seems to me, is the only way Development and Peace will be fully exposed for what is, i.e. an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pell is the real deal. Don't mess with the Aussies.

@lastchancetosee: Are you a professional protester? Are you one of those people that get paid/bused-in to "rally" for whatever trendy leftist cause?

@Suzanne: Tried playing video, but it now says its was" removed by user".

The "Rapture" is a Protestant concoction. It is highly recommended that you obtain information on the affairs of the day from sources other than The Colbert Report and Dan brown novels.

Merci.

Suzanne: If I recall correctly, you have a French language blog. However, I cannot recall the web address. Would you be so kind as to prrovide a link?

The dilemma, and the fault, of the Russian Orthodox Church always has been it's proximal coziness with the State. It never did achieve that balanced separable quality of the Roman Catholic Church. That would be separABLE, not separATION. Distinctions.

It is the common characteristic of civilizations in decline that its moral relativists - responsible for, and perpetuating the decline, will laugh and wine and dine, being all "joie de vivre", along the way downward.