Papal falability

The Pope recently admitted 'mistakes'. This was in relation to the row over the holocaust denier Bishop Williamson of the SSPX society, who was brought back into the Catholic Church. But Mouse is reviewing his press lately, and humbly suggests a few more mistakes, in the form of the following media disasters.

1. Pope silent after the collapse of the Legionaries of Christ after their leader was revealed to be living a double life.
2. The Catholic Church in Brazil excommunicate the doctors and mother of a 9 year old rape victim for assisting in an abortion. The girl had been raped by her step father and became pregnant. The Archbishop said that the abortion was a worse crime than the rape, and as such the rapist was not excommunicated.
3. On his way to Africa, the Pope says that condoms make the AIDS problem worse.

By the strict dogma of the church, there is nothing wrong in any of these decisions or actions. Its just when common sense is applied, and headline writers get going, that they look like clangers. These are huge failings in media management.

The effect of these actions is, for example, that the Church is seen as taking the side of a hypocrite in the Legionaries of Christ, rather than standing up for those he duped. It is seen as taking the side of a rapist, and standing against his child victim. I'm sure that nothing could be further from the truth, but to those outside the church, that is how it looks. It seems to the Mouse to be ... a mistake.