In which Natalie finds the fallacy

One of the better Wondermarks in recent days, which is saying something (click to enlarge and clarify):

All of ‘em are pretty much worth reading, though, so go check it out.

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While the temptation to just not deal with this anymore is great, given how despairingly little I can do about any of it, there are two things that fairly cry out to be read.

First, here’s something of a bombshell: the ecclesial judge – Fr. Thomas Brundage, JLC, the Judicial Vicar for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee – who presided over the trial of Fr. Murphy, sets the record straight on the New York Times‘ reportage on the matter, which – it is becoming increasingly clear – was sloppy, agenda-driven, and contemptible.

Most significantly, in spite of the fact that Fr. Brundage has been liberally (and inaccurately) quoted by numerous media organs concerning this matter, not one of them has ever actually bothered to contact him.  Words being attributed to him are handwritten additions to his own notes – in a hand other than his own – and there seems to have been insufficient effort made by those compiling the Times piece to determine just what was happening on this juridical level during the times in question.  The whole shape of the situation changes with this new information, and it’s an absolute disgrace that, barring some deserved mea culpa on the part of the Times, not one person in a thousand, among those who read the original story (or – worse – just skimmed the headline), will ever see it.

The whole piece is full of the sort of stuff that is gratifying when read on its own, but which, when one considers its scandalous absence from the Times‘ leading article and the degree to which that article further added to the absurdly unjust and slanderous burdens under which the Holy Father continues to operate, the effect is somewhat more enraging than pleasing.

Read all of it.  You ought to.

Next, via Whispers in the Loggia, we have comments offered by Abp. Vincent Nichols of Westminster at the conclusion of the Mass of Chrism earlier today.  I have little to say about them apart from calling them good, but he brings it all home in this:

There is a vivid phrase to recall: Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback.

Amen.