{"id":3394,"date":"2007-10-18T13:52:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/10\/18\/lying-bullies\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T18:52:04","slug":"lying-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/10\/lying-bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lying bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked about reaction he had received, Archbishop Niederauer expressed concern about the impact of Web logs, or blogs.<\/p>\n

"The blogosphere is a kind of dangerous, endless recess in a global schoolyard," he said, "where the bullies with the biggest bullhorns can shout whatever they want."
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There is of course some truth in this, but these kind of comments are exactly the type of defensive ones used by people who are forced to react to something. Bloggers almost always are dismissed as always being in the extreme camp – I guess bullies in pajamas seems to be the dominant charge. No thanks is ever given when a some scandalous event is posted on and attention brought to bring it to an end. There have been a large range of reactions to this event with some of them quite uncharitable towards the Archbishop, but the implication that bloggers are just bullies who can shout whatever they want is not exactly charitable either with this implication of lying.<\/p>\n

Catholic punditry is a potentially dangerous sport and we must always examine our consciences when we post and to be quite careful about what we say. I know I don’t want the first words from Jesus to me upon my death to be "About that blog of yours…" Sometimes it can seem that we can be quite happy reporting on scandals within parishes such as Most Holy Redeemer of the infamous St. Joan of Arc. Though speaking for myself and probably for the majority of Catholic bloggers, I would be quite happy to be reporting on positive changes in these parishes or not posting on them at all.<\/p>\n

Jesuit Father Donal Godfrey, one of the Mass concelebrants, said the way the two men were dressed was “disrespectful to religious sisters,” but he said he felt “it probably wasn’t their intention (to offend.) They knelt in all the right places. They stood in all the right places. Except for the way they were dressed, they weren’t doing anything disrespectful.”<\/p>\n

Fr. Donal Godfrey is normally good for a good laugh. "Except for the way they were dressed" is quite a funny line if you take it that way. Except for mocking the habits of Catholic religious orders and receiving Communion in objectionably grave sin they weren’t doing anything disrespectful.<\/p>\n

Update<\/font>: American Papist has some solid commentary<\/a> <\/a> on comments made defending MHR and the Archbishops comments on blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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