I think in this case our religion was put to ridicule because it was being used to try and portray someone in a certain positive light. I think that whether the accused was a good Catholic or not has nothing to do with the case. And also what can anyone know about how good or not a Catholic is unless he is in his heart and mind. The priests involved were also out of place and when you see what they said you notice that they had nothing much to tell us about the accused.

[Daphne – Well, I sure as hell hope it wasn’t to grab her butt.]

To ask her to spare him a guilty verdict and a prison sentence?

[Daphne – Ah, but was he planning to take a brown envelope of Lm20 notes with him? That’s what we want to know.]

To ask her to make everyone forget what he did? I do sympathise with sick people who go to Lourdes hoping for a miracle because one tends to try anything when faced with a life-threatening illness, but to ask the Madonna’s intervention for a gross mistake which you brought on to yourself is, to put it mildly, very cheeky. It’s about time he stops feeling sorry for himself and take it like a man by facing the music courageously and then he might, just might, re-gather a teeny-weeny bit of respect from those around him.

This whole sorry mess is really sad, sad to the point of being depressing, depressing to realise what a shit pit we live in.

Fortunately, there’s a lot of good in the world too – (e.g. footie :-)). Whilst this story had to be told, or rather, your comments about it were well worth hearing, perhaps you could let us have something to warm the heart occasionally, and not sicken it, like this does.