How many more modern day examples do believers in THE church need to convince them that they being used, much like David Copperfield misdirects his audience to make them believe he has truly disappeared?

The Pope….the Vatican and a cast of thousands supports the world’s greatest “Magical Mystery Tour”, now starring Bishop Richard “Wackadoo” Williamson.

Remove the dogma, emotional baggage and the bedtime stories your parents told you and what is left is pure theater……a magical mystery tour designed and packaged to answer the prayers of those needing answers….right now!

So when another controversy erupts, like the perpetual sexual molestations of children, the “believers” are all too quick to provide excuses and a rationale for irrational behavior….like the recent chaos in Vatican circles over Pope Benedict’s decision to return another deranged priest to bosom of the church.

Check it out…..

In demanding that British Bishop Richard Williamson recant, the Vatican did little to mitigate the public relations damage done by the decision of Pope Benedict XVI to return this Holocaust-denier to the church. Williamson has never repudiated his outlandish views about the extent of Jewish suffering under the Nazis. Taking them back now would show nothing but political expediency. The Pope ought to acknowledge his own error and reinstate the ex-communication of Williamson.

The pope’s decision to lift Williamson’s excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church last month, along with those of three other bishops appointed by an ultra-conservative breakaway archbishop more than 20 years ago, has caused an international uproar. Williamson recently told Swedish TV that no Jew was killed by gas chambers during World War II. He insulted the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi death camps by stating that only 200,000 or 300,000 perished.

For a crackpot to spout this nonsense is troubling — for a person invited back into the church by the pope to do so is outrageous and dangerous.

History makes the pope’s actions even more significant. As a teen-ager, Pope Benedict was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth. When the Pope visited Auschwitz, he did little to ease Jewish concerns about anti-Semitism, making no mention of his personal experiences during the war or explicitly asking forgiveness on behalf of Catholics or Germans. Many Jewish groups had also accused the wartime-era Pope Pius of indifference to Jewish suffering under the Nazis.

Pope Benedict should not be judged by his brief, and compulsory, membership in the Hitler Youth. Nothing in his record suggests prejudice or malice toward anyone. Still, his own experience ought to compel him to show greater sensitivity to the grotesque inhumanity of the Holocaust, or risk fomenting anti-Semitism and damaging the progress in Catholic-Jewish relations made by Pope John Paul II.

He can start by permanently barring a prelate who desecrates the memory of millions of Jews from the church.

IN HIS OWN WORDS….