It looks like Pope Ratzinger may be thinking about abandoning his forthcoming visit to the UK because he apparently doesn't like to be criticized by people who choose puerile humour as their weapon of choice. Calling off a state visit simply because a junior clerk somewhere in Whitehall decided to make a joke at his expense (see above) seems slightly excessive even for an organisation as insular as the Catholic Church, although perhaps as the late great Kurt Vonnegut once said "The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."
The more skeptical among us will be thinking that this faux outrage and insult is rather reminiscent of faux Islamic "offence" at inappropriately named teddy bears and rather poorly drawn cartoons, perhaps the RC Church is learning a thing or two from the mad mullahs? Or perhaps this is just a convenient vehicle to distract people's attention from the daily sex abuse revelations against them, who knows. In any case it would be a shame to miss out on the chance to see these clerical stiffs squirming as even more "offensive" questioning and rude behaviour would certainly be perpetrated during the planned visit.
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