This is an interesting read to say the
least. However a daunting one in that it translates into roughly 9 x A4
size pages of small font text, with a lot of obfuscatory theological
verbiage, and very little gut-level sincerity. The kind of sincerity
we have grown used to hearing/seeing even from the jaded, hard-boiled,
teflon coated CEOs and Politicians we have voted in, who somehow succeed
in getting it right.
The right look, sound-bite, haggard demeanour and forthrightness so critical to making a connection with the hoi polloi, whenever they seek forgiveness for some political misstep from the political and moral ‘high-ground.’ (think CEO Mike McCain’s handling of the Maple Leaf foods Listeria crisis in Canada). There is no such catharsis forthcoming in this epistle.
https://essaysandscribbles.com/2016/04/18/the-vaticans-apology-letter-on-the-churchs-complicity-with-the-child-abuse-furore-in-ireland-no-mea-culpa-here/
The right look, sound-bite, haggard demeanour and forthrightness so critical to making a connection with the hoi polloi, whenever they seek forgiveness for some political misstep from the political and moral ‘high-ground.’ (think CEO Mike McCain’s handling of the Maple Leaf foods Listeria crisis in Canada). There is no such catharsis forthcoming in this epistle.
https://essaysandscribbles.com/2016/04/18/the-vaticans-apology-letter-on-the-churchs-complicity-with-the-child-abuse-furore-in-ireland-no-mea-culpa-here/