It will be interesting to see how the island of saints, scholars and paedophiles greets him. The expected date of arrival is June 2012, location Dublin. The occasion? The 50th International Eucharistic Congress. By that time, the argument goes, the sight of bishops falling on their croziers like demented Roman generals will have faded from the public mind.
No doubt, it’s also hoped that by 2012 revelations concerning the bestial clerical abuse of children will no longer shock. That, however, is a long shot (the Cloyne report has yet to be released).
Still and all, the Vatican seems sure that the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin will be the bees’ knees. Their blurb says it “will engage people from Ireland and around the world in a programme of liturgical and cultural events”.
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So you poor people are going to be inflicted with a Eurcharistic Congress. What in insult to rottweilers calling that bum, Ratslinger a rottweiler. They are gorgeous dogs. These Eurcharist Congresses seem to backfire on the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church.
My bretheren in Atheism, do what you can to stop it. It is a bit hard to stop Ratslinger landing in Ireland. He has diplomatic immunity as a head of state, head of that teensy weensy slab of land, Vatican City.