Situation Desperate But Not Serious

[poliphilo]

Does Trump- with his assertions that his office's communications were hacked in the closing stages of the presidential campaign-  realise he actually won the election- and isn't still running against Obama? Is all the noise he's making just the way he is or a cunning strategy to confuse and bedazzle his enemies (which at this stage of the proceedings means just about everybody in the world apart from his inner circle).

Following the revelations from Tuam I find myself wondering (as I often have before) why the Catholic Church doesn't just crawl away into a corner and die of shame- but then I remind myself that power elites just don't do that- not ever, nohow.

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[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Tuam was a bad enough situation even before the latest revelations. The only way the Catholic Church could handle this in a defensible manner would be to say "We fucked up! We will try to learn from this." - But they seem unwilling to do that.

(And of course the same goes for the Irish establishment. You can't separate these places from the authorities that put these women and their children there.)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Then again, it could just be that he's a paranoid idiot!

Don't get me started on Tuam- a friend of mine in Ireland has just given birth and she's both ashamed to be Irish and furious.

[matrixmann]

The church has a long, long history of atrocities. One more or less on the counter doesn't make that much a difference anymore - in the eye of people looking at the church, when asking about being surprised about another one, as well as from the point of view of the church itself. At all, one must say: Has any atrocity that ever made it to the public make people tearing churches down and burn priests and all the people that belong to this lot that keeps doing these things? As long as they don't need to fear this, why caring about it too much (from their point of view? Just a recognition from practical circumstances.