Thanks Be to Blogger

For it went down for a bit. Otherwise, you would have been treated to my unalloyed reaction to this one:

A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church — which have included reports about Pope Benedict XVI’s oversight role in two cases — to the persecution of the Jews, sharply raising the volume in the Vatican’s counterattack.
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Benedict sat looking downward when the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, who holds the office of preacher of the papal household, delivered his remarks in the traditional prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica. Wearing the brown cassock of a Franciscan, Father Cantalamessa took note that Easter and Passover were falling during the same week this year, saying he was led to think of the Jews. “They know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” he said.

The very idea that a Vatican official sees a moral equivalence between the murdering of millions of Jews on the one hand and criticizing the Catholic Church for decades of covering up the acts of the child molesters within its clergy on the other hand just boggles my mind.