http://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-wants-church-act-decisively-against-sex-120428259.html
It is distressing to see the mass media treating Pope Francis in the same way they are treating Obama. How? They are acting like there was no one good or meaningful or effective before Pope Francis. This article for instance, seems to state that the Roman Catholic Church has not acted decisively concerning sexual abuse in the Church. The writer is ignorant or refuses to acknowledge that Pope Benedict confronted the issue eight years ago, that he directed numerous advances against this abuse, and that he was consistent in his efforts to act decisively against them. However, with the writer’s comment, “…Pope Francis inherited…” these problems from his predecessor, the author seems to negate all the good work that was done before, as though Pope Francis’ mere statement that the Church needed to act decisively was actually something.
Is this merely more of the mass media’s preference for style over substance? Is this the same as Obama saying in speeches that we needed to make a budget but only four years later does he actually do the work of creating and submitting a budget? Words are nice and gestures are nice but actions are better. It does none of us any good for someone to say that others are supposed to do something, while we, ourselves, do nothing but talk.
I remember one of our most ineffective Presidents, Jimmy Carter. He carried his own suits, and walked to the curb with his guests. He also sat idly by while the militant Islamists invaded our embassy and imprisoned our embassy personnel. He sent in our helicopters, but he did not do the needed research work before that ill-fated involvement, resulting in a botched mission and the needless death of our personnel. Words are nice but without hard work implementing those words, people die!!
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