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The wafer thing

by Paul Wells on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:55pm - 104 Comments

I would say “This is getting silly,” but that happened a long time ago.

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  • Orson Bean

    Hey, whaddya know — over on his website, Warren Kinsella is threatening to sue someone over this.

    In other dramatic, earth-shattering news, the sun rose this morning, and will very likely set this evening.

  • scissorpaws

    A non-Catholic receiving communion absent the cleansing preparation of the sacrament of confession (I'd love to have a seat in that booth) . . . The man is going to HELL!!! Isn't that enough?!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SophiaGeffros Sophia Geffros

    I'm trying to care. Trying… so.. hard..
    Somehow, I can't summon up any emotion other than a vague, eye-rolling disbelief and disgust.
    It's almost too silly to even warrant the spiel I make it a point to give when things like these make the news, which is basically "War genocide global warming poverty gap recession human rights violations HELLO!" but I can't manage the passion to do so in its normal, several paragraph long form. Rather, all I can do is say "How the mighty have fallen." and not specify whether I'm speaking of the newspaper involved, the politicians involved, or the fact that we are discussing this.

  • mbtoday

    There is no scandal per say. period. But…. is this just another sign that the focus at the PMO is not on governing and all that entails but on attacking the opposition in general and the Liberals in particular. In a properly configured PMO several people along with the support staff the government does have would have worked the "protocol" of the ceremony on hand namely a Catholic funeral mass. Is this incident an example of Mr. Harper not bothering to have good non-partisan advisers on staff (You Know the kind you to govern) or something else? I think (actually suspect ) that is one of Mr. Harper failings that he does not have competent staff for a governing PM. That said as a Catholic I am not scandalized by this incident, I have seen similar behaviour by other non-catholics at Catholic services, it just that the PM should have known what to do.

  • Bill D, Cat

    Cheer up Paul .,,,,,, could be worse .

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/john_g2708 john g

    When this story was only about the wafer…that was indeed silly.

    But it's not really about that anymore, is it? It's about media ethics now. It's about editors falsifying the stories of their own journalists, possibly with political intervention. For lack of more clarity from the paper that started this, it may be about falsifying or even fabricating quotes, and may be about journalists taking legal action to defend their reputations.

    I agree that the whole topic is a silly thing to risk having your ethics called into question about, but here we are. Paul you may still think this is silly but I don't think media ethics is a silly topic.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

      well put, though I remain skeptical about the political intervention angle.

  • Bill D, Cat

    Paul you may still think this is silly but I don't think media ethics is a silly topic.

    The least silly thing so far . Well done .

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