Mike Luckovich for February 12, 2013

Great lefty toon. Full of hate.

Faith in what? In the superstitions, hallucinations, wishful thinking, folklore, psychosis, ignorance, fear, and mythical stories of ignorant people who lived 2000 years ago? Do you really believe there was a Garden of Eden with a talking serpent, or Noah’s Ark really existed and sailed to the Galapagos to save the tortoises and Australia to pick up a pair of dingoes, or that Lot’s wife was really turned into a pillar of salt, or that all those silly mythological stories are factual? If you do then I suggest you seek counseling because they’re just made up stories like all the myths of all cultures such as Zeus and his mother hiding him from his father Kronus who thought he’d swallowed him whole or the Isis and Osiris story or any of a thousand others. Are you aware that dozens of other primitive societies had virgin birth myths before the early christians adapted it for themselves. If you’re a grown-up and still don’t know the difference between myth and reality, you may end up abetting child abuse and other horrors. Grow up!

They’re burning incriminating documents… again.

..and who preaches “blessed are the poor”?

Ratzinger/Benedict was actually one of the catalysts to prevent scandal and coverup.

http://www.osv.com/PopeBenedictXVIandtheSexualAbuseCrisis/tabid/8019/Default.aspx

lefty hell thier bank is so corrupt european banks took thier atms out got cought banking for drug dealers mafia iran soon not allowed into any banking assoc

@ StCleve72

Amen brother, I could not have said it better.

Anyone who thinks this Pope or the Vatican leadership have been doing a great job of addressing pedophile priests must have a cloud of smoke hanging over their heads.The best spin is that Cardinal Ratzinger did less than he should have to address clerical abuse when it was his job to do so. Even now, they still are trying to shift blame everywhere but on themselves.

Here’s your Papal “honesty”:The Pope said, “In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” and that “It was maintained – even within the realm of Catholic theology – that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself.”There was never a point in which the culture at large thought pedophiles were anything less than reprehensible. You often attack moral relativism, but can’t bring yourself to confront it in your own Church.You should be very concerned about the future of your church. Any pretense of moral authority by a group that cannot address it’s own moral sickness is just that: a pretense.

If the church was burning all incriminating documents, the Rome fire department would have to call in air tankers to keep the flames from spreading outside Vatican City.

Hmm, why does someone “infallible” resign?

The cartoon is right on. Either the resignation is a run for cover from an enormous scandal, or the Pope realizes he really is too sick to go on and kept his word to resign. It’s comical that ALL his aides are stunned that he is keeping his word. They all assumed he was just talking. But he meant it and they are amazed.

It’s interesting that Benedict is the first Pope in 600 years who thought to step down before he becomes an invalid. I’d like to think that he’s realized he is not the person to lead the Church out of it’s scandal, but he’s seems to think the main with the scandal is that it’s making people question his authority.

Luckovich, liberal slurper