Atheist Experience Blog: Media fawning over Papal claptrap
This is an excellent blog post and discussion regarding the Pope's most recent pronouncements. I agree with Don an most of his points here, except that on point 1 it is mentioned in the comments that this is pretty unlikely - these priests don't care about the original ban on condoms, and they already know that condoms can do this. They just rationalize it. Posted by: Don Baker Is is just me, or does pretty much every news story about the Pope's latest emanations annoy you, too? No matter what he has to say, the media is there like hungry puppies eager to lap it up and puke it out in your local newspaper or TV news program. There's usually a whole series of puff pieces trying to add drama to his latest moral pronouncement. Rarely is there any real balance to the stories and the Pope is held up as some great expert on whatever he chooses to blather about. Read the rest here.