Veteran Rome reporter blasts Vatican myths

gimmebroadband

Journalist and author John Allen gives the real story about the Church hierarchy.

Veteran Rome-based reporter and author John L. Allen, Jr, says there is no such thing as “the Vatican” as commonly portrayed by the mainstream media.

“Only seen from afar” is the Vatican perceived as a bunch of “Stepford wives all in lockstep,” the National Catholic Reporter’s senior correspondent told the Canadian Catholic School Trustees Association annual conference in Ottawa Sept. 23.

http://bcc.rcav.org/canadian/1064-veteran-rome-reporter-blasts-vatican-myths

antiskeptic

gimmebroadband wrote: »

Journalist and author John Allen gives the real story about the Church hierarchy.



http://bcc.rcav.org/canadian/1064-veteran-rome-reporter-blasts-vatican-myths

Drat! A title like that can be read two ways. I should have guessed which way you meant.

gimmebroadband

Yeah, the media's Dan Brown version is more exciting and sells papers!

Manach

You mean there is no legion of albino assassin monks - all those years I spent avoiding sunlight in preparation, wasted !!!

kelly1

Interesting article.